Attica · around 440 BCE
ἀλλ᾽ ὅτε Σούνιον ἱρὸν ἀφικόμεθ᾽, ἄκρον Ἀθηνέων
“But when we came to holy Sounion, the headland of Athens.” Odyssey 3.278
Reading the sky over Sounion
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τελευταῖον δὴ οἶμαι τὸν ἥλιον, οὐκ ἐν ὕδασιν οὐδ᾽ ἐν ἀλλοτρίᾳ ἕδρᾳ φαντάσματα αὐτοῦ, ἀλλ᾽ αὐτὸν καθ᾽ αὑτὸν ἐν τῇ αὑτοῦ χώρᾳ δύναιτ᾽ ἂν κατιδεῖν καὶ θεάσασθαι οἷός ἐστιν.
“Last of all he will be able to see the sun, and not mere reflections of him in the water, but he will see him in his own proper place, and not in another; and he will contemplate him as he is.”
Plato, Republic VII, 516b
ἆρ᾽ οὐ σκότους ἂν ἀνάπλεως σχοίη τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς;
“Would his eyes not be full of darkness?”
Republic VII, 516e