Sunium
place · 5 works · 8 mentions · 9 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.
The Aeginetans set an ambush and captured the sacred ship, with many leading Athenians on board, and put in prison the men they seized.
Other Aeginetans followed him, and the Athenians gave them Sunium to dwell in;
The foreigners pushed off with the rest, picked up the Eretrian slaves from the island where they had left them, and sailed around Sunium hoping to reach the city before the Athenians.
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.