Votive Plaque from Sounion, near Athens. See Odyssey 3.278,
Where Nestor tells Telemachus about the death and funeral of
Menelaosí steersman Phrontis. Sounion was site of temples of
Athena and Poseidon. Could there also have been a hero shrine
for Phrontis? (H. Abramson, in Calif. Studies in Class. Antiqu. 12
(1979)). Protoattic. Analatos Painter. 700 BCE. Athens
Nat. Museum.
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