Temple of Poseidon
Cliffside marble temple of the sea god, its Doric columns famed as a landmark for sailors returning home.
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This guide to the Temple of Poseidon at Sounion opens with a name scratched into a column near the entrance: Byron. It traces the story of the young English lord who climbed this cliff in 1810, years before he was famous, and the long-running dispute over whether he really carved his own signature into the marble or whether an admirer did it later in his honor. Along the way it turns to the poem Byron wrote about this same cliff, imagining himself alone with nothing but the sound of the waves.
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