Introduction to Aigina: AIGINA is the island closest to Athens. Legend has it that Zeus’s most charming mistress was hidden here. The fig trees all over the mountains and plains were the fruit of their love, and what really made her... Aegina is famous for Salamis who saved Greece. 2480 years ago, King Zeers of Persia led a huge navy to invade Greece. Locust-like ships covered the sky and the sun. The small city-state of Athens was in danger, and the Greek navy Under the leadership of the wise commander Themistocles, he destroyed three times his own warships in the Salamis waterway in one fell swoop, allowing the Greek sun to rise in the sky again.