placeGulfPlacesA wide sea bite into the land. Not inlet as a narrow arm, and not sea as the whole water body alone.Hellenic religionGulf appears in Hellenic religion.Herodotus’s naval and coastal speech names gulfs among the Malian, Argolic, and neighboring waters that shape campaigns. A named gulf in that traveler’s speech, not harbor/strait/cape already walked and not a modern yacht-chart dump.from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCEappears in · sourced · documentedsourcesHistories · HerodotusHerodotus, Histories.