Temple of Poseidon, Cape Sounion
Also known as Ναός Ποσειδώνος
440
Ancient Greek
temple
The Temple of Poseidon stands on the southern tip of Cape Sounion, 60 metres above the Aegean, built around 444 to 440 BC during the Periclean building programme on the foundations of an Archaic sanctuary destroyed by the Persians in 480…
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