Eleni Konsolaki, also Eleni Konsolaki-Giannopoulou or Eleni Konsolaki-Yannopoulou (Greek

Greek alphabet

The Greek alphabet is the script that has been used to write the Greek language since at least 730 BC . The alphabet in its classical and modern form consists of 24 letters ordered in sequence from alpha to omega...

: Ελένη Κονσολάκη-Γιαννοπούλου) is a Greek archaeologist who is renowned internationally and excavated in areas including Troezen

Troezen

Troezen is a small town and a former municipality in the northeastern Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Troizinia, of which it is a municipal unit....

, Poros

Poros

Poros is a small Greek island-pair in the southern part of the Saronic Gulf, at a distance about 58 km south from Piraeus and separated from the Peloponnese by a 200-metre wide sea channel, with the town of Galatas on the mainland across the strait. Its surface is about and it has 4,117...

 and Methana

Methana

Methana is a town and a former municipality on the Peloponnese peninsula, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Troizinia, of which it is a municipal unit....

.

Major task

She has been active for approximately 18 years in that area. She spends her busy time with examination of ancient treasures of the area. Special attention was received while excavating Methana town in 1990 where she discovered a Mycenae

Mycenae

Mycenae is an archaeological site in Greece, located about 90 km south-west of Athens, in the north-eastern Peloponnese. Argos is 11 km to the south; Corinth, 48 km to the north...

an building from which she described over 150 'cult images': small clay figures of animals, horses with riders etc.

Special discoveries

It drew the attention of all the Greek state in fact that the peninsula of Methana was archaeologically known. The Methana peninsula is noted as an archaeologically protected zone.

In the last years, she investigated the Mycenaean-built Acropolis Magoula near Galatas next to the island of Poros

Poros

Poros is a small Greek island-pair in the southern part of the Saronic Gulf, at a distance about 58 km south from Piraeus and separated from the Peloponnese by a 200-metre wide sea channel, with the town of Galatas on the mainland across the strait. Its surface is about and it has 4,117...

. She discovered several Mycenaean buildings which show that the Troezen area did not only have a great importance in the ancient times, after a few researches, the connections of the Mycenaean and the Minoan

Minoan civilization

The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age civilization that arose on the island of Crete and flourished from approximately the 27th century BC to the 15th century BC. It was rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th century through the work of the British archaeologist Arthur Evans...

 epochs came closer. These include Theseus

Theseus

For other uses, see Theseus Theseus was the mythical founder-king of Athens, son of Aethra, and fathered by Aegeus and Poseidon, both of whom Aethra had slept with in one night. Theseus was a founder-hero, like Perseus, Cadmus, or Heracles, all of whom battled and overcame foes that were...

, the famous mythological hero who defeated the Minotaur

Minotaur

In Greek mythology, the Minotaur , as the Greeks imagined him, was a creature with the head of a bull on the body of a man or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, "part man and part bull"...

s from this region. Also the Troezen area had a great importance.
Eleni Konsolakis-Yannopoulou published her research work to the conference to the history of the Saronic Gulf

Saronic Gulf

The Saronic Gulf or Gulf of Aegina in Greece forms part of the Aegean Sea and defines the eastern side of the isthmus of Corinth. It is the eastern terminus of the Corinth Canal, which cuts across the isthmus.-Geography:The gulf includes the islands of; Aegina, Salamis, and Poros along with...

in 1998 on the island of Poros (Konsolaki-Giannopoulou, E. (ed.)
Argosaronikos (Athens 2003))..