Sounion

[ soo-nee-uh n ]

/ ˈsu ni ən /

Cape, a cape in E central Greece, SE of Athens, at the tip of the Attica peninsula, in W Aegean Sea.

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Also called Colonna.

The impulse is to gaze on the sea and the islands, the realm of Athens, the realm which her fortress on Sounion was to guard.
Studies of Travel - Greece|Edward A. Freeman
Surely here we have the site of the temple of the god who was prayed to on Sounion.
Studies of Travel - Greece|Edward A. Freeman
The actual material of the columns of Sounion is something intermediate between the two.
Studies of Travel - Greece|Edward A. Freeman
So Pausanias tells us, though he does not explain what brought Helen to the long island off Sounion.
Studies of Travel - Greece|Edward A. Freeman

The island of Patroklos is the last of the series of capes and islands between Peiraieus and Sounion.
Studies of Travel - Greece|Edward A. Freeman