坐落在希臘本島最南端的蘇尼翁角，有著一個令人傷心的故事，蜜兒多如是說。她開始敘述希臘神話裡牛頭人身的密諾陶洛斯被特修斯剷除的故事，從小熟讀希臘神話的我，當然對這個故事並不陌生，只是在蜜兒多說故事的當下，我才知道，我只讀了故事的一半。原來，特修斯在殺死怪物以後，啟程返回雅典，然而在途中卻忘記了他與父親艾勾斯的約定，倘若光榮返家便將船上的黑帆換成白帆，因此，當艾勾斯在蘇尼翁角上看到揚著黑帆的船隻航向雅典，傷心之餘，便從蘇尼翁角上一躍而下，葬身海中，自此之後這片海域就被命名為「愛琴海」。Cape Sounion sits at the southern tip of continental Greece. “There’s a sad story about this place.” Mirto said. She started to tell the story of Minotaurus in Greek mythology. This half-man and half-bull figure was killed by Theseus. I am quite familiar with the Greek mythology and knew the story. However, it’s at the very moment that I realized that I only remembered half of the story. After Theseus killed the monster, he went on the return trip to Athens. However, Theseus forgot what he promised to his father Aegeus that if he defeated the monster he should raise a white sail on the returning. Aegeus saw the black sail as the ship approached, and thought that Theseus had been killed by Minotaurus on Crete. In his grief, Aegeus threw himself from the cape into the sea and drowned, and the sea in which he died was called the Aegean thereafter.
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