Temple of Poseidon, Cape Sounion

Temple of Poseidon, Cape Sounion

Also known as Ναός Ποσειδώνος

Year

440

Type

building

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 BC …

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