CORINTH

Coming from to the Peloponnese, Corinthia is the first city to be met. This is where Greek myths revive. This is where Nemean wine is called 'Herakles blood', This is where one can hear stories about goddesses, about Zeus and Apollo. Where one can come upon columns, sanctuaries and ancient palaces.

It became a great naval power who perfected the trireme. The Corinthians were the first to have the idea of cutting through the lsthmus (canal) but, were unable to accomplish this feat. Instead, they invented and built a paved slipway, called the diolkos, to haul their boats over the lsthmus (canal). In 67 AC Nero started digging through the lsthmus and got as far as a big trench, but works were abandoned after his death. The canal finally became a reality in 1891-1893. The church of the Apostle Paul reminds us of the saint's Letters to the Corinthians and his preaching here.

The Doric temple of Apollo (6th c BC with 1st c. AD restorations) stands on a knoll to the north of the agora; it is the most important monument of that period.
The museum contains mosaic floors, Mycenaean and Corinthian pottery, terra cotta sphinxes, statues of two supernatural beings, engraved stones, the Roman head of the Goddess Tyche (Goddess of Luck) and small gadgets of various kinds.

Acrocorinth
This is the largest and oldest fortress in the Peloponnese. At the summit, which offers a magnificent view, there were a vast number of shrines and temples dominated by the Temple of Aphrodite. Lower down is the Upper Peirene Spring.
Pausanias mentions that Peirene was a woman who was transformed into a spring due to the tears she shed for her son who had been killed by Artemis.

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