Corinth

Corinthia

Corinth, on the isthmus linking the Peloponnese to mainland Greece, was a wealthy commercial polis and the ancient name survives in modern Korinthos. The Cynic Diogenes of Sinope spent much of his later life there, and according to tradition met Alexander the Great in the city. Earlier it was governed by the archaic tyrant Periander, counted among the Seven Sages. Rome destroyed Corinth in 146 BC and refounded it as a colony in 44 BC.

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