City of Poseidon.

EXTINCT cities; ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations; ARCHAEOLOGICAL expeditions; HELIKE (Extinct city)

This article focuses on the search of Helike, a lost Classical Greek city and cult center of Poseidon, destroyed by an earthquake and tidal wave in 373 B.C., by explorer Dora Katsonopoulou. Katsonopoulou has been eager to find Helike since she was a child growing up nearby, and while others have looked in vain, she and her partner, Steven Soler, codirector of the small Helike Project, have been closing in on its remains. Although Katsonopoulou and Soler have not yet found central Helike, they have unearthed Helike-era ruins and much more. It was only natural that Helike would be the center of a Poseidon cult, for this region is the core of the most active earthquake zones in Europe.