Raise thy golden trident for us,
Thee at Sunium we praise
Whom the dolphin band obeys.”
SUNIUM
Temple of Poseidon. The Ægean Sea
To catalogue the ships, famous in Greek story, that have sighted or rounded this headland would cause to pass in review a mighty and a motley fleet. Nestor tells Telemachus how, sailing home with Menelaus from Troy, they lost their pilot,—
“When that we came unto Sunium sacred, the headland of Athens.”
And Sophocles’s chorus of Salaminian sailors long in Troyland for their native shores:—
“O there I would I might be,
Where Sunium’s spreading foreland