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OSU Excavations at Isthmia (1803 words) |
 | The island of Dokos is a small rocky projection off the southern coast of the Argolid between the islands of Hydra and Spetses. |
| The settlement on Dokos is the subject of a recent study (Kyrou 1995) which argues that it figured significantly in a story told in a narration of Paul of Monemvasia (saec. |
| This project was undertaken with a permit from the Ministry of Culture to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens under the supervision of the 2nd Eforeia of Byzantine Antiquities and the 2nd Eforeia of Classical and Prehistoric Antiquities. |
| I.EN.A.E. (632 words) |
| The underwater archaeological excavation at Dokos carried out by the Hellenic Institute of Marine Archaeology from 1989 to 1992 under the direction of the archaeologist George Papathanasopoulos was the first full scale excavation of an ancient wreck in Greece which also employed the most up-to-date technological methods of the time. |
| The island of Dokos owes its name to the Dokos family of Hydriot ship owners, to whom it belonged at the end of the 18th century. |
| AD an actual castle town was formed in the district of the Kastro; and at the time of the national uprising in 1821 the island was used as a naval station for the Hydriot fleet. |
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