{"id":304,"date":"2015-04-26T20:26:03","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T00:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/?page_id=304"},"modified":"2023-11-10T13:51:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T13:51:24","slug":"sounion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/dr-js-illustrated-sites-of-greece\/attica\/sounion\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Sunset at Sounion 1994<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Sunset at Sounion 1998<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Site of Aegeus&#8217; Suicidal Plunge???<\/h2>\n<p>As the story goes, Aegeus anxiously waited at Cape Sounion for his son Theseus to return from Crete, where he planned to dispatch the monster Minotaur or die trying. A signal had been pre-arranged: white sails upon return would indicate victory; black sails, defeat and mourning. For various reasons, Theseus forgot to change the sails to white and at first sight of the ship, grief-stricken Aegeus plunged into the sea which bears his name. This does appear to be the most likely spot for a fatal plunge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion &nbsp; Sunset at Sounion 1994 &nbsp; Sunset at Sounion 1998 &nbsp; Site of Aegeus&#8217; Suicidal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":298,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-304","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1128,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/304\/revisions\/1128"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}