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sive Doric temple was built of local marble site fortress and the old settlement within
in around 450-440 B.C., on the ruins of an the fortress, as well as the small naval base,
archaic temple that was destroyed by the along with a ship shed for warships.
Persians.
According to the myth, the Athenian King
Some of the temple’s columns remain Aegeus was waiting at Sounio for his son’s
standing, while not far from Poseidon’s -Theseus-, arrival. Young Theseus, who had
sanctuary one can also see the ruins of the sailed to Crete to kill the “Minotaur”, had
temple of Athena Sounias, the walls of the promised his father that if he was to return
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