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Cape Sunium
Cape Sounion

Holy Sunium, the cape of Athens.

  Returning from the Trojan War, Odysseus related a story about Cape Sunium:

  "As we were sailing together on our way home from Troy, Menelaos and I came to holy Sunium, the cape of Athens. Phoebus Apollon killed Phrontis, the helmsman of Menelaos. Without Phrontis steering the ship, Menelaos was forced off course and lost some of his ships on the rocky shores of Krete. He managed to eventually make landfall in Egypt but his delayed homecoming made him too late to prevent the murder of his brother, Agamemnon."

Latitude North, Longitude East
37.65188745571797, 24.025741662072598

Cape Sunium

Cape Sunium

Cape Sunium

References:
Homer, Odyssey book 3, line 278
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