Sunium
place · 6 works · 9 mentions · 10 anchored passages
Sunium's rock
in the texts
The Histories
A promontory in Attica, site of the Athenian festival ambushed by the Aeginetans and later the settlement granted to Aeginetan exiles.
Other Aeginetans followed him, and the Athenians gave them Sunium to dwell in;
The Aeginetans set an ambush and captured the sacred ship, with many leading Athenians on board, and put in prison the men they seized.
They sailed around Sunium, but the Athenians marched back to defend the city as fast as their feet could carry them and got there ahead of the foreigners.
History of the Peloponnesian War
A place named in the narrative of Gylippus's relief of Syracuse and the wider Sicilian and Attic campaigns.
The conveyance also of provisions from Euboea, which was before effected more quickly by land from Oropus, through Decelea, was now carried on with great expense by sea, round Sunium.
having contributed towards the supply of timbers, and fortified Sunium, that their corn-ships might have a safe passage round;
Clouds
The promontory of Sunium in Attica, cited as a site struck by the thunderbolt despite not being guilty of perjury.
But he smites his own temple, and Sunium the promontory of Athens, and the tall oaks.
Cyclops
Cape in Greece sacred to Athena, cited by Odysseus in his appeal to the Cyclops
and Sunium’s rock, the silver-veined, sacred to Zeus-born Athena, still is safe, and Geraestus, the harbour of refuge;
Crito
A location from which men reported having seen the ship, used to judge when it will arrive in Athens
It has not exactly come, but I think it will come today from the reports of some men who have come from Sunium and left it there.
Theaetetus
The Attic deme of Theaetetus's father, Euphronius.
He is the son of Euphronius of Sunium, who is a man of just the sort you describe, and of good repute in other respects;