τῆς ἠπείρου τῆς Ἑλληνικῆς κατὰ νήσους τὰς Κυκλάδας καὶ πέλαγος τὸ Αἰγαῖον ἄκρα Σούνιον πρόκειται γῆς τῆς Ἀττικῆς· καὶ λιμήν τε παραπλεύσαντι τὴν ἄκραν ἐστὶ καὶ ναὸς Ἀθηνᾶς Σουνιάδος ἐπὶ κορυφῇ τῆς ἄκρας. πλέοντι δὲ ἐς τὸ πρόσω Λαύριόν τέ ἐστιν, ἔνθα ποτὲ Ἀθηναίοις ἦν ἀργύρου μέταλλα, καὶ νῆσος ἔρημος οὐ μεγάλη Πατρόκλου καλουμένη· τεῖχος γὰρ ᾠκοδομήσατο ἐν αὐτῇ καὶ χάρακα ἐβάλετο Πάτροκλος, ὃς τριήρεσιν ὑπέπλει ναύαρχος Αἰγυπτίαις, ἃς Πτολεμαῖος ὁ Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Λάγου τιμωρεῖν ἔστειλεν Ἀθηναίοις, ὅτε σφίσιν Ἀντίγονος ὁ Δημητρίου στρατιᾷ τε αὐτὸς ἐσβεβληκὼς ἔφθειρε τὴν χώραν καὶ ναυσὶν ἅμα ἐκ θαλάσσης κατεῖργεν.
ὁ δὲ Πειραιεὺς δῆμος μὲν ἦν ἐκ παλαιοῦ, πρότερον δὲ πρὶν ἢ Θεμιστοκλῆς Ἀθηναίοις ἦρξεν ἐπίνειον οὐκ ἦν· Φαληρὸν δέ—ταύτῃ γὰρ ἐλάχιστον ἀπέχει τῆς πόλεως ἡ θάλασσα—, τοῦτό σφισιν ἐπίνειον ἦν, καὶ Μενεσθέα φασὶν αὐτόθεν ταῖς ναυσὶν ἐς Τροίαν ἀναχθῆναι καὶ τούτου πρότερον Θησέα δώσοντα Μίνῳ δίκας τῆς Ἀνδρόγεω τελευτῆς. Θεμιστοκλῆς δὲ ὡς ἦρξε—τοῖς τε γὰρ πλέουσιν ἐπιτηδειότερος ὁ Πειραιεὺς ἐφαίνετό οἱ προκεῖσθαι καὶ λιμένας τρεῖς ἀνθʼ ἑνὸς ἔχειν τοῦ Φαληροῖ—τοῦτό σφισιν ἐπίνειον εἶναι κατεσκευάσατο· καὶ νεὼς καὶ ἐς ἐμὲ ἦσαν οἶκοι καὶ πρὸς τῷ μεγίστῳ λιμένι τάφος Θεμιστοκλέους. φασὶ γὰρ μεταμελῆσαι τῶν ἐς Θεμιστοκλέα Ἀθηναίοις καὶ ὡς οἱ προσήκοντες τὰ ὀστᾶ κομίσαιεν ἐκ Μαγνησίας ἀνελόντες· φαίνονται δὲ οἱ παῖδες οἱ Θεμιστοκλέους καὶ κατελθόντες καὶ γραφὴν ἐς τὸν Παρθενῶνα ἀναθέντες, ἐν ᾗ Θεμιστοκλῆς ἐστι γεγραμμένος.
θέας δὲ ἄξιον τῶν ἐν Πειραιεῖ μάλιστα Ἀθηνᾶς ἐστι καὶ Διὸς τέμενος· χαλκοῦ μὲν ἀμφότερα τὰ ἀγάλματα, ἔχει δὲ ὁ μὲν σκῆπτρον καὶ Νίκην, ἡ δὲ Ἀθηνᾶ δόρυ. ἐνταῦθα Λεωσθένην, ὃς Ἀθηναίοις καὶ τοῖς πᾶσιν Ἕλλησιν ἡγούμενος Μακεδόνας ἔν τε Βοιωτοῖς ἐκράτησε μάχῃ καὶ αὖθις ἔξω Θερμοπυλῶν καὶ βιασάμενος ἐς Λάμιαν κατέκλεισε τὴν ἀπαντικρὺ τῆς Οἴτης, τοῦτον τὸν Λεωσθένην καὶ τοὺς παῖδας ἔγραψεν Ἀρκεσίλαος. ἔστι δὲ τῆς στοᾶς τῆς μακρᾶς, ἔνθα καθέστηκεν ἀγορὰ τοῖς ἐπὶ θαλάσσης—καὶ γὰρ τοῖς ἀπωτέρω τοῦ λιμένος ἐστὶν ἑτέρα—, τῆς δὲ ἐπὶ θαλάσσης στοᾶς ὄπισθεν ἑστᾶσι Ζεὺς καὶ Δῆμος, Λεωχάρους ἔργον. πρὸς δὲ τῇ θαλάσσῃ Κόνων ᾠκοδόμησεν Ἀφροδίτης ἱερόν, τριήρεις Λακεδαιμονίων κατεργασάμενος περὶ Κνίδον τὴν ἐν τῇ Καρικῇ χερρονήσῳ. Κνίδιοι γὰρ τιμῶσιν Ἀφροδίτην μάλιστα, καί σφισιν ἔστιν ἱερὰ τῆς θεοῦ· τὸ μὲν γὰρ ἀρχαιότατον Δωρίτιδος, μετὰ δὲ τὸ Ἀκραίας, νεώτατον δὲ ἣν Κνιδίαν οἱ πολλοί, Κνίδιοι δὲ αὐτοὶ καλοῦσιν Εὔπλοιαν.
ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἄλλος Ἀθηναίοις ὁ μὲν ἐπὶ Μουνυχίᾳ λιμὴν καὶ Μουνυχίας ναὸς Ἀρτέμιδος, ὁ δὲ ἐπὶ Φαληρῷ, καθὰ καὶ πρότερον εἴρηταί μοι, καὶ πρὸς αὐτῷ Δήμητρος ἱερόν. ἐνταῦθα καὶ Σκιράδος Ἀθηνᾶς ναός ἐστι καὶ Διὸς ἀπωτέρω, βωμοὶ δὲ θεῶν τε ὀνομαζομένων Ἀγνώστων καὶ ἡρώων καὶ παίδων τῶν Θησέως καὶ Φαληροῦ· τοῦτον γὰρ τὸν Φαληρὸν Ἀθηναῖοι πλεῦσαι μετὰ Ἰάσονός φασιν ἐς Κόλχους. ἔστι δὲ καὶ Ἀνδρόγεω βωμὸς τοῦ Μίνω, καλεῖται δὲ Ἥρωος· Ἀνδρόγεω δὲ ὄντα ἴσασιν οἷς ἐστιν ἐπιμελὲς τὰ ἐγχώρια σαφέστερον ἄλλων ἐπίστασθαι.
ἀπέχει δὲ σταδίους εἴκοσιν ἄκρα Κωλιάς· ἐς ταύτην φθαρέντος τοῦ ναυτικοῦ τοῦ Μήδων κατήνεγκεν ὁ κλύδων τὰ ναυάγια. Κωλιάδος δέ ἐστιν ἐνταῦθα Ἀφροδίτης ἄγαλμα καὶ Γενετυλλίδες ὀνομαζόμεναι θεαί· δοκῶ δὲ καὶ Φωκαεῦσι τοῖς ἐν Ἰωνίᾳ θεάς, ἃς καλοῦσι Γενναΐδας, εἶναι ταῖς ἐπὶ Κωλιάδι τὰς αὐτάς. —ἔστι δὲ κατὰ τὴν ὁδὸν τὴν ἐς Ἀθήνας ἐκ Φαληροῦ ναὸς Ἥρας οὔτε θύρας ἔχων οὔτε ὄροφον· Μαρδόνιόν φασιν αὐτὸν ἐμπρῆσαι τὸν Γωβρύου. τὸ δὲ ἄγαλμα τὸ νῦν δή, καθὰ λέγουσιν, Ἀλκαμένους ἐστὶν ἔργον· οὐκ ἂν τοῦτό γε ὁ Μῆδος εἴη λελωβημένος.
Cape SUNIUM, in the land of Attica, juts out from that part of the Greek mainland which faces the Cyclades and the Aegean Sea. When you have sailed past the cape you come to a harbour, and there is a temple of Sunian Athena on the summit of the cape. Sailing on you come to Laurium, where the Athenians once had silver mines, and to a desert island of no great size called the island of Patroclus; for Patroclus built a fort and erected a palisade on it. This Patroclus was the admiral in command of the Egyptian galleys which Ptolemy, the son of Ptolemy, the son of Lagus, sent to the help of the Athenians when Antigonus, the son of Demetrius, had invaded their country in person at the head of an army, and was ravaging it while his ships blockaded the coast. 2. Piraeus was a township from of old, but before the archonship of Themistocles it was not a seaport. Down to that time Phalerum was the port of Athens, it being the point of the coast nearest to the city. It was from Phalerum, they say, that Menestheus sailed with his ships for Troy, and Theseus before him sailed from Phalerum to pay to Minos the forfeit for the death of Androgeus. But when Themistocles was appointed archon he made Piraeus the port of Athens, because it seemed to him to lie more conveniently for navigation and to have three harbours instead of the single one at Phalerum. And there were ship-sheds there down to my time; and beside the largest harbour is the grave of Themistocles. For they say that the Athenians repented of what they had done to Themistocles, and that his kinsmen took up his bones and brought them from Magnesia. Certain it is that the sons of Themistocles not only returned from exile, but dedicated in the Parthenon a picture containing a portrait of Themistocles.
Best worth seeing in Piraeus is a precinct of Athena and Zeus. Both the images are of bronze: Zeus holds a sceptre and a Victory, Athena holds a spear. Here is a painting of Leosthenes and his sons by Arcesilaus. It was Leosthenes who, at the head of the Athenians and all the Greeks, defeated the Macedonians in Boeotia and again outside Thermopylae; and after overpowering them shut them up in Lamia, over against Oeta. Behind the Long Colonnade, which stands beside the sea, there are statues of Zeus and the People, a work of Leochares. In the Long Colonnade there is a market for the sea-side population: there is another market for those who dwell farther from the harbour. Beside the sea Conon built a sanctuary of Aphrodite after vanquishing the Lacedaemonian fleet at Cnidus in the Carian peninsula; for the Cnidians honour Aphrodite above all the gods, and they have sanctuaries of the goddess. The oldest is the sanctuary of Bountiful Aphrodite: next to it is the sanctuary of Aphrodite of the Height; and newest of all is the sanctuary of her who is generally called Cnidian Aphrodite, but whom the Cnidians themselves call Aphrodite of the Fair Voyage.
The Athenians have another harbour at Munychia, with a temple of Munychian Artemis, and another harbour at Phalerum, as I said before. At the latter harbour is a sanctuary of Demeter. Here, too, is a temple of Sciradian Athena, and farther off is a .., temple of Zeus. And there are altars of gods named Unknown, and of heroes, and of the children of Theseus, and of Phalerus; for the Athenians say that this Phalerus sailed with Jason to Colchis. There is an altar also of Androgeus, son of Minos. It is called the altar of the hero, but antiquaries know that it is the altar of Androgeus. Twenty furlongs away is Cape Colias, on which, when the fleet of the Medes was destroyed, the wrecks were washed up by the waves. Here is an image of Colian Aphrodite, and here are the goddesses named Genetyllides. I think that the goddesses whom the Phocaeans of Ionia call Gennaides are the same as the goddesses at Colias. On the way from Phalerum to Athens is a temple of Hera that has neither doors nor roof: they say it was fired by Mardonius, the son of Gobrias. The existing image is, so they say, a work of Alcamenes; it cannot, therefore, have been injured by the Medes.
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