ANCIENT HELIKE AND AIGIALEIA: Proceedings of the Second International Conference

ANCIENT HELIKE AND AIGIALEIA: Proceedings of the Second International Conference, December 1995, Aigion, Greece.

The definitive volume of the topography, geology and archaeology of ancient Helike

Edited by Dora Katsonopoulou, Steven Soter and Demetrius Schilardi

An overview of the topography, geology and archaeology of ancient Helike, its region and its colonies, with 28 papers, 517 pages of text and 50 of plates, plus 98 text figures.

Published in 1998 by The Helike Society,
Post Restante, Diakopto 25003, Achaia, Greece.
Price per copy: US $60 (includes shipping and handling)
24x17 cm (paper), ISBN: 960-86377-0-8

TABLE OF CONTENTS

All papers have abstracts in both English and Greek. The papers are in English [Eng], Greek [Gk], Italian [Ital], Spanish [Span] and German [Ger]

PART I. THE HELIKE PROJECT. WORK AND RESULTS: 1988-1995

Dora Katsonopoulou. Topography of Aigialeia [Gk]
Steven Soter & Dora Katsonopoulou. The search for ancient Helike, 1988-1995: geological, sonar and bore hole studies [Eng]
Dora Katsonopoulou. The first excavation in Helike: Klonis field. A preliminary report [Gk]
St. P. Papamarinopoulos, P. Stefanopoulos & M. Papaioannou. A geomagnetic contribution to the search for ancient Helike [Eng]
Steven Soter & Dora Katsonopoulou. Geophysical observations on the hill of Agios Georgios, possible site of the acropolis of Helike [Eng]
Y. Maniatis, Y. Facorellis, S. Soter, D. Katsonopoulou & K. Papathanasopoulos. 14C sediment dating from the area of Helike [Gk]
Ioannis Liritzis & Robert Galloway. Opto-luminescence dating of ceramic fragments from bore holes drilled in the area of Helike [Gk]
Sotiris Varnavas. Results of geochemical analysis in the search for ancient Helike [Gk]

PART 2. AIGIALEIA AND THE COLONIES OF HELIKE

Anton Bammer. On the topography of Aigeira [Ger]
Nikolas Faraklas. Helike: its physical and political submergence [Gk]
Nestor E. Courakis. A contribution to the search for ancient Helike [Eng]
Dora Katsonopoulou. The cult of Poseidon Helikonios: a new consideration [Gk]
Demetrius Schilardi. The prehistoric cult of Poseidon in the Peloponnese: the cases of Pylos, Helike and Methana [Eng]
Demetrius Schilardi. Helike and Ionia [Eng]
Nicolas Coldstream. Achaean pottery around 700 B.C., at home and in the the colonies [Eng]
Emanuele Greco. Achaean colonies in the West [Ital]
Pier Giovanni Guzzo. Sybaris in the Archaic period [Ital]
Silvana Luppino. The artistic production of Sybaris from its foundation to its destruction in 510 B.C. [Ital]
Attilio Stazio. Observations on the origins and functions of the earliest coinage of the Achaean colonies in the West [Ital]
Vincenzo Cotecchia & Rossella Pagliarulo. Results of geological, hydrogeological and geotechnical research aimed at reconstructing the archaeological levels and protecting the ancient town of Sybaris [Eng]
Rafael Ramos Fernandez. Probable relations betwen Greek and Iberian Helike [Sp]
Manuel Serrano Espinosa. Notes on the Hellenization of Mediterranean Iberia [Sp]

PART 3. GEOLOGY OF THE AIGIALEIA REGION AND THE HELIKE DELTA

George Postma. Catastrophic sediment transport in the coastal zone of tectonically active regions: relevance to the destruction of Helike [Eng]
Elias Sotiropoulos. The role of ground kinematics in the search for ancient Helike [Eng]
B. Lykousis, D. Sakellariou, D. Pananikolaou, G. Chronis, I. Papoulia, G. Rousakis & P. Georgiou. Contribution of neotectonics and marine geology-geophysics to the discovery of ancient Helike [Gk]
Martin Hovland. Seabed pockmarks on the Helike delta front [Eng]
Gerassimos Papadopoulos. A reconstruction of the great earthquake of 373 B.C. in the western Gulf of Corinth [Eng]
Steven Soter. The Aigion earthquake of 1995: macroscopic anomalies [Eng]