Sounion (English spelling)

Japanese: スーニオン(英語表記)Sounion
Sounion (English spelling)
The name of a cape at the southern tip of the Attica Peninsula in Greece. The plateau at the tip, surrounded on three sides by sheer cliffs rising about 60 meters above sea level, had been revered as a sacred place for sailors since the time of Homer, and a temple to the sea god Poseidon was built on it in the 6th century BC. This older temple was destroyed during the Persian invasion in 480 BC, and a temple to the same god was built on the same foundations in the mid-5th century BC. Today, only about ten columns and parts of the superstructure remain of this marble Doric temple.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
ギリシアのアッティカ半島南端の岬名。海面から約60mの高さに切り立つ絶壁で三方を囲まれた突端の台地は,すでにホメロスの時代から船乗りたちの聖地として崇められ,前6世紀にはその上に海神ポセイドンの神殿が築かれた。この古い神殿は前480年のペルシア軍の来攻の際に破壊され,前5世紀の中ごろその同じ基礎の上に,同じ神のための神殿が建てられた。この大理石を用いたドーリア式神殿からは,今日10基余りの円柱と上部構造の一部が残されている。

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