On the Saronikos
gulf side, near the present site of Kalamaki,
there was the settlement of Schinouda. It was somewhere in that area that one
of the ends of the Diolkos terminated, whereas the other end terminated at Poseidonia
on the Corinthian Gulf.
On the beach at Schinous, where according to the tradition, the body
of young Melicertis was washed ashore, there must have been bulrushes (“schinoi”)
or reeds (“kalamia”) from which the ancient settlement (Schinoudas)
as well as present Kalamaki
were named.
Pafsanias reports that King Athamas of Orchomenos
was angry with Ino’s plotting, and pursued her in order to kill her. Ino,
carrying her young boy, Melicertis, in her arms, fell into the sea from the Molourida
rock, on the road from Megara
to Corinth. A dolphin brought
the body of young Melicertis out to the shore of Isthmia,
at a short distance from the sanctuary of Poseidon, under a pine-tree. Ino, became
a sea goddess (Leucothea) and Melicertis, by the name of Palaemon, was worshipped
at the temple of Poseidon, and was honored by the Isthmian games
