placeBeachPlacesA shore of sand or shingle. Not island as the whole land, and not sea as the water body alone.Hellenic religionBeach appears in Hellenic religion.Herodotus’s histories name beaches and open shores among landing-places of fleets. A named beach in that traveler’s speech, not harbor as the sheltered seat and not a vacation dump.from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCEappears in · sourced · documentedsourcesHistories · HerodotusHerodotus, Histories.