🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Temple of Poseidon at Sounion
Classical High 444–440 BCE · Athenian Greek
Pericles' white cliff-top Poseidon temple guarding Attica's maritime gateway.
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Tagsposeidon
5 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Archaic to Roman (700 BCE–400 CE Panhellenic games) · Corinthian–Sicyonian–Argive contested; Poseidon Isthmios
690 BCE pioneering stone temple (among earliest roofs tiles) with 196.5 m Isthmian Games stadium, Melicertes hero cut.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Late Classical (Peloponnesian War) · Classical Athenian
421–405 BCE asymmetric Ionic with Caryatids, housing Athena Polias and Poseidon-Erechtheus on Mycenaean terrace.
🇬🇷 Greece · Buried city
Early Bronze to Classical (c.2600 – 373 BCE) · Achaean Greek
373 BCE tsunami-lost Helike — Classical city and EBA settlement both buried 3 m under Bouras lagoonal marine silt 60 m inland, originally submerged.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Early Bronze Age to Classical (c. 3000 – 373 BCE) · Mycenaean / Achaean Greek
Classical Achaean capital submerged by 373 BCE earthquake-tsunami, rediscovered 2001 buried beneath coastal plain near Rizomylos.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Classical High 444–440 BCE · Athenian Greek
Pericles' white cliff-top Poseidon temple guarding Attica's maritime gateway.