Cape Sideros

Cape Sideros or Cape Sidero (Greek: Άκρα Σίδερος, romanized: Akra Sideros) is a cape at the eastern end of the island of Crete, Greece. Anciently it was known as Samonium or Samonion (Ancient Greek: Σαμώνιον), Sammonium or Sammonion (Ancient Greek: Σαμμώνιον),[1] Salmonium or Salmonion (Σαλμώνιον)[2] and Salmone (Σαλμώνη).[3] It was here that the seamen of the Alexandrian vessel which conveyed Paul the Apostle to Rome, thinking they could pursue their voyage under the lee of the island, ran down.[3] The cape is noted by many ancient secular writers including Strabo,[4] Ptolemy,[5] Pomponius Mela,[6] and Pliny the Elder,[7] and in the anonymous Stadiasmus Maris Magni.[8]

Just off the promontory, ancient geographers described a reef island called Naulochus or Naumachos.[9]

References
  1. Strabo. Geographica. ii. p. 106. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. Strabo. Geographica. x. pp. 474, 475, 478, 489. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  3. Acts 27.7
  4. Strabo. Geographica. ii. p. 106; x. pp. 474, 475, 478, 489. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  5. Ptolemy. The Geography. 3.15.5.
  6. Pomponius Mela. De situ orbis. 2.7.12.
  7. Pliny. Naturalis Historia. 4.20.21.
  8. Stadiasmus Maris Magni 318.
  9.  Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Naulochus" . Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Samonium". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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