Sounion
（重定向自Sunium）
![View of Cape Sounion](/Images/godic/202502/14/Off_the_Cape_Sounion4548.jpg")
![Sunset at Cape Sounion.](/Images/godic/202502/14/Kap_Sounion4548.jpg")
![Theseus slays the Minotaur. Detail from Attic red-figure pelike. ca. 470 BC. From Cerveteri, Italy. Museo Gregoriano Etrusco](/Images/godic/202502/14/Theseus_Minotaur_MGEt_Inv202604548.jpg")
![The Artemision Bronze, a bronze statue of deity, either Poseidon or Zeus, about to hurl a missing projectile (either a thunderbolt, if Zeus, or a trident if Poseidon). Height: 2.1 m. ca. 460 BC. Found in shipwreck off Cape Artemisium. Athens National Archaeological Museum](/Images/godic/202502/14/Poseidon4549.jpg")
Cape Sounion (Modern Greek: Aκρωτήριο Σούνιο, transliterated Akrotírio Soúnio, pronounced [akroˈtirʝo ˈsuɲo]; Ancient Greek: Ἄκρον Σούνιον, Άkron Soúnion; Venetian: Capo Colonne, "Cape of Columns") is a promontory located 69 kilometres (43 mi) south-southeast of Athens, at the southernmost tip of the Attica peninsula in Greece.