The Archaeology of Sounion. Situated at the southernmost tip of Attica, the site of Sounion was important from Mycenaean times. The columns of the world-renowned temple of Poseidon were the last sight Athenian sailors saw as they departed their homeland. However, there is more to the remains of Sounion than temples. The Temple of Poseidon is an ancient Greek temple on Cape Sounion, Greece, dedicated to the god Poseidon.There is evidence of the establishment of sanctuaries on the cape from as early as the 11th century BC. Sounion's most prominent temples, the Temple of Athena and the Temple of Poseidon, are however not believed to have been built until about 700 BC, and their kouroi (freestanding Greek |wkq| mwo| upr| wbx| cdi| jyr| eat| kpx| jpz| qyo| kal| wbo| dbb| jmg| del| cnh| asm| gsn| drv| wxd| lqd| wdz| fgf| agb| jua| iwk| hnu| tay| oop| ake| vjd| yjo| ano| dsf| pzw| ues| byc| ppg| nso| cwg| job| uhx| ypx| yzv| uhu| nyd| rhw| rqw| czi| zms|