1. A slope stability case in Arcadia, Greece G. Belokas, G. Dounias, M. Pantazidou, C. Tsatsanifos Hellenic Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering

2. Where are we? Mediterranean…

3. Where are we? Greece…

4. Where are we? Peloponnisos (southernest part of mainland Greece): Arcadia…

5. In European Renaissance arts, Arcadia was celebrated as an unspoiled, harmonious wilderness. The idea endures. Thomas Cole's The Arcadian or Pastoral State, 1834: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadia_%28utopia%29

6. Greece & Arcadia Prefecture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nomos_Arkadias.png Going over mountains between Tripolis (Arcadia) and Kalamata (Messinia)

7. Highway connecting Tripolis to Kalamata Tripolis (north) Kalamata (south)

8. Highway after the landslide

9. Bypassing the still moving slope with a bridge

10. The bridge under construction & the resurfaced slope

11. Looking away from the slope