Kalaureia

Kalaureia or Calauria or Kalavria is an island close to the coast of Troezen in the Peloponnesus of mainland Greece, part of the modern island-pair Poros [1]. On Calauria a Doric temple of Poseidon was built in the ancient sanctuary, possibly around 520 BCE [1]. The dimensions of the temple are 27.4 by 14.4 m [1]. There are six columns on each short side and twelve on each long side [1]. There is strong evidence that the epithet of Poseidon at Kalaureia was Geraistos, a word from an unknown pre-Hellenic language [1]. The Sanctuary was excavated by Swedish archaeologists in 1894 [1]. Excavations were resumed in 1997 [1].