Sounion Tapestries

A lonely man enjoying the sunset at a beach in Sounion, very close to the ancient temple of Poseidon.

CAPE SOUNIO GREEK NATIONAL PARK ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟ ΘΑΛΑΣΣΙΟ ΠΑΡΚΟ ΣΟΥΝΙΟΥ

WPA poster art of Cape Sounion with temple of Poseidon ruins and Patroklos island in Attica within Sounio National Woodland Park Greece done in works project administration or Art Deco style.

On the southern edge of Attica, on a beautiful location, in Cape Sounion, you can see one of the most impressive ancient temples of Greece (approx. 440 B.C.), the one dedicated to Poseidon, the moody and usually angry, God of Sea, in the Greek Mythology. This is the place where, Aegeus, king of Athens, jumped off the cliff and died, when he saw his son's (Theseus) ship returning with black sails (a sign that his son had died in his battle with Minotaur, allthough it was not true), giving name to the Aegean Sea. There is a reference of Sounio, in one of the poems ("Don Juan")by famous romantic poet, Lord Byron. "Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep..."