Corinth is one of the oldest towns of Greece. At one time the largest city. Its vast luxury, loving wealth brought about total destruction by the Romans in 146 BC and remained uninhabited until by order of Julius Caesar in 44 BC. This explains why there is only one Greek ruin, the seven Doric column of the 6th century, Temple of Apollo.(at top)
After lying waste for a hundred years, Corinth was rebuilt in 46BC. Corinth was a Greek port of great importance, situated on the narrow neck of land separating the central part of Greece from the Peloponnesus.
It was to this community, greedy for power, dedicated to pleasure, fascinated by rhetoic and knowledge, that Paul came and It was here that Paul lashed out against immorality causing a riot, but was acqquitted by Roman proconsul, Gallio. (Acts 18)
Corinth was destroyed by an earthquake.
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