Ancient site · Greece · Partial ruin
Helike
Helike was an ancient Greek polis in Achaea that was catastrophically submerged by an earthquake and tsunami in the winter of 373 BC. It was a religious centre with a panhellenic temple to the Helikonian Poseidon and an urban plan of rectilinear buildings and cobbled streets. The buried city was rediscovered and excavated from 2001 onward, revealing occupation layers from the Early Bronze Age through Classical, Hellenistic and Roman periods.
Its prime
373 BC
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 373 BC
What Helike looked like in its prime.
A compact coastal Greek polis of low stone buildings on a raised, cobbled street grid beside a shallow lagoon/poros; roofs covered with terracotta tiles, sun‑bleached limestone and mudbrick walls, and a raised stone temple platform topped by a pitched tiled roof sheltering a large bronze cult statue. Narrow stone-paved lanes thread between rectilinear houses and public halls; a low defensive wall skirts the shoreline with small wooden coastal craft moored in the harbour.
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6 places to explore in 373 BC.
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