On one of the columns of the temple of Cape Sounion you can see the inscribed name of poet Lord Byron. Lord Byron stayed in Athens for several months in 1810-11. He made at least two visits to Sounion. There is, however, no direct evidence that the inscription was made by Byron himself.
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