A wealthy commercial city commanding the isthmus between mainland Greece and the Peloponnese, controlling overland trade routes and founding colonies at Corcyra and Syracuse.
Destroyed and depopulated by the Roman consul Lucius Mummius in 146 BCE following the defeat of the Achaean League, with its population killed or enslaved and its buildings razed, ending its existence as an independent Greek city-state.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Polis of Corinth — the shape you scrub through changes in 900 BC · 370 BC · 166 BC.
Contextualizes Corinth within the wider Classical Greek world and inter-polis rivalry; verified via Open Library.
History of the ancient polis of Corinth, its commerce and colonies.
Primary source: a 2nd-century CE Greek traveller's eyewitness survey of Corinth and the Peloponnese (Book II is the Corinthiaka) — contemporary description of the region's sites and lore.