Corinth

Corinth, Ancient Greece Corinth is an acient city 48 miles west from Athens, on the narrow strech of land that joins the Pelopennese to the mainland of Greece. Corinth was an important city in acient Greece and it played a major role in the missionary work of the Apostle Paul. Today, Corinth is the second largest city in the Peloponnese with several sites of interest to pilgrims and tourists. ( "Scared Destinations") Corinth was favorably situated for trade by land. It also had good harbors at Cenchreae and Lechaeum, on either side of the isthmus.

Corinth was found in prehistoric times. In 734 B.C., Corithians founded colonie sat Corcyra, an Ionian island west of Greece, and at Syracuse in Sicily.According to Homer, it was the home of the legendary characters Bellerophon, Medea, and Sisyphus(Encyclopedia,Corinth). By 750 B.C., Corinth had become the wealthiest city of ancient Greece. In 581 B.C., they instituted the Isthmian Games, a national festival held every second year in honor of their principal god, Posedion(Encyclopedia,Corinth). Corinth was famous for its skilled workers in bronzeand day for its naval architects (Encyclopedia,Corinth). Because of its commercial and political rivalry with Athens, Corinth was chief instigator of the Peloponnesian War(Encyclopedia,Corinth).

__Corinth Canal__

Corinth canal provides a waterway between the Gulf of Corinth and the Sacronie Gulf in east centralGreece. The canal is 4 miles ( 6 kilometers) long. It cuts through the narrow strip of land that connects the peninsula of Peloponneses with the rest of the Greek mainland. A Frence company began building the canal in 1881, and Greece finished it in 1893. An attempt to build such a canal had been made by the Roman Emperor Nreo in A.D. 67. (Encyclopedia, Corinth)

__Ancient Greece__ Ancient Greece had three distinct geographical regions. Northern Greece included portions of ancient Macedonia, and low-lying coastal plains. Central Greece was capped by the highest point in Greece, Mount Olympus, believed to be the some of the gods, and Athens, the capital of modern- day Greece. Southern Greece included the Peloponnese, a peninsula that thrust into the Med Sea. It housed another great ancient city- Sparta. Southern Greece was connected to central Greece by a narrow isthmus at Corinth. Ancient Greece also boasted numerous islands sprinkled, throughout the Aegean Sea. And arm of the Med Sea between Greece and Turkey. 

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Citations

Website:. "Corinth." //Sacred Destinations//. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Mar 2012. . Book: // O` Connell, Kim A. // Enslow Publisher, Inc., 2004. 11, 30. Print. Encyclopedia: N/A, N/A. "Corinth." // Corinth, Ancient Greece //. Ci-Cz. 3. N.Y. New York: Print.



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