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1000places > THE CORINTH (GREECE) CANAL - Corinth sits at the neck of a narrow isthmus between the Ionian and Aegean Seas. A canal to link the two seas was first proposed in the 6th century B.C., but nothing came of it until the emperor Nero struck the first blow with a golden pickaxe in 67 A.D. But it took 1826 years before technology and a French engineering company could complete the channel. Today it is too narrow for most merchant vessels.
1000places > CORINTH, GREECE - Inside the Corinth museum we found more headless statues. There seemed to be far more stone bodies on display than there were heads.
1000places > CORINTH, GREECE - Corinth's museum also displayed an incredible mosaic honoring Dionysos - the Greek god of wine and theater. It once graced the wall of a local Roman villa in the 2nd century A.D.
1000places > CORINTH, GREECE - Headless statues are tucked in small alcoves and beside stone walls. We learned that many were made intentionally with interchangeable heads that could be replaced when the city changed its mind on its rulers or heroes.
1000places > CORINTH, GREECE - The ruined archways call on our imagination to see the gleaming buildings that once were.
1000places > CORINTH, GREECE - Below the Temple of Apollo is the Corinth agora - the marketplace. These are the remains of shops at the western end.
1000places > CORINTH, GREECE - Like many ancient Greek ruins, what remains of temple columns rise above vast amounts of fallen stonework.
1000places > CORINTH, GREECE - The Temple of Apollo is Corinth's dominant feature. Built in 550 B.C., it was one of the buildings preserved by the Romans when they rebuilt the site in 46 B.C. (after having razed it a century before).
1000places > CORINTH, GREECE - The wicked ways of the ancient Corinthians so raised the ire of St. Paul the Apostle that he spent 18 months preaching in Corinth from 51 to 52 A.D. before being dragged to this platform, called the bema, and accused of "persuading people to worship God in ways contrary to the law."
THE CORINTH (GREECE) CANAL - Corinth sits at the neck of a narrow isthmus between the Ionian and Aegean Seas. A canal to link the two seas was first proposed in the 6th century B.C., but nothing came of it until the emperor Nero struck the first blow with a golden pickaxe in 67 A.D. But it took 1826 years before technology and a French engineering company could complete the channel. Today it is too narrow for most merchant vessels.
1000places > THE CORINTH (GREECE) CANAL - Corinth sits at the neck of a narrow isthmus between the Ionian and Aegean Seas. A canal to link the two seas was first proposed in the 6th century B.C., but nothing came of it until the emperor Nero struck the first blow with a golden pickaxe in 67 A.D. But it took 1826 years before technology and a French engineering company could complete the channel. Today it is too narrow for most merchant vessels.
THE CORINTH (GREECE) CANAL - Corinth sits at the neck of a narrow isthmus between the Ionian and Aegean Seas. A canal to link the two seas was first proposed in the 6th century B.C., but nothing came of it until the emperor Nero struck the first blow with a golden pickaxe in 67 A.D. But it took 1826 years before technology and a French engineering company could complete the channel. Today it is too narrow for most merchant vessels.
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