The Death of Demosthenes
Demosthenes, the great orator and political figure of classical Greece found his death in Kalavria, Poros. During the time that the Macedons had taken Athens, Demosthenes found refuge in Kalavria. However, he was followed by Archias, a fugitive hunter working for Antipatros.
Demosthenes retreated to a sanctuary at the Temple of Poseidon where he could not be arrested since it was considered sacred. Because Demosthenes was not coming out of the sanctuary, Archias isolated him and vowed not to leave until Demosthenes would come out.
The Athenian orator preferring to die than fall in the hands of Archias drank poison that he had stored inside a bamboo straw. Just before his death on September 23 of 323 BC, Demosthenes cried out "I, my friend Poseidon, leave your temple and I go outside while I am still alive. But for Antipatros and the Macedons not even this Temple is sacred."
Demosthenes's marble bust is displayed at the bifurcation of one of the roads that leads into Poseidon's Temple.