The early policy of Ambracia was determined by its loyalty to Corinth ( for which it probably served as an entrepot in the Epirus trade ), its consequent aversion to Corcyra ( as Ambracia participated on the Corinthian side at the Battle of Sybota, which took place in 433 BC between the rebellious corinthian colony of Corcyra ( modern Corfu ) and Corinth ).

The word acropolis literally in Greek means " city on the extremity " and though associated primarily with the Greek cities Athens, Argos, Thebes, and Corinth ( with its Acrocorinth ), may be applied generically to all such citadels, including Rome, Jerusalem, Celtic Bratislava, many in Asia Minor, or even Castle Rock in Edinburgh.

Then he penetrated into the Peloponnesus and captured its most famous cities — Corinth, Argos, and Sparta — selling many of their inhabitants into slavery.

Jerome states that Apollos was so dissatisfied with the division at Corinth, that he retired to Crete with Zenas, a doctor of the law ; and that the schism having been healed by Paul's letter to the Corinthians, Apollos returned to the city, and became its bishop.

Due to its ancient history and the presence of St. Apostle Paul in Corinth some locations all over the world have been named Corinth:

He was then dispatched to Corinth, Greece, where he successfully reconciled the Christian community there with Paul, its founder.

Corinth was the meeting point of many nationalities because the main current of the trade between Asia and western Europe passed through its harbors.

" From its earliest beginnings, Christianity spread much more quickly in major urban areas ( like Antioch, Alexandria, Carthage, Corinth, Rome ) than in the countryside ( in fact, the early church was almost entirely urban ), and soon the word for " country dweller " became synonymous with someone who was " not a Christian ," giving rise to the modern meaning of " pagan.

In 459 BC, Athens took advantage of a war between its neighbors Megara and Corinth, both Spartan allies, to conclude an alliance with Megara, giving the Athenians a critical foothold on the Isthmus of Corinth.

Following this, Athens instructed Potidaea, a tributary ally of Athens but a colony of Corinth, to tear down its walls, send hostages to Athens, dismiss the Corinthian magistrates from office, and refuse the magistrates that the city would send in the future.

Sparta and its allies, with the exception of Corinth, were almost exclusively land-based powers, able to summon large land armies which were very nearly unbeatable ( thanks to the legendary Spartan forces ).

Corinth and Thebes demanded that Athens should be destroyed and all its citizens should be enslaved.

By doing so the victorious Spartans proved to be the most clement state that fought Athens and at the same time they turned out to be its saviour as neither Corinth nor Thebes at the time could challenge their decision.

* 434 BC: Conflict occurs between the Greek island of Kerkyra and its mother-city Corinth.

The Romans strip Corinth of its art treasures and ship them back to Rome.

In the ensuing Battle of Potidaea, the Athenians are victorious against Corinth and its allies.

In 336 BC Philip II of Macedonia was authorized by the League of Corinth as its Hegemon to initiate a sacred war of vengeance against the Persians for desecrating and burning the Athenian temples during the Second Persian War.

* Under the threat of Spartan intervention, Thebes disbands its league, and Argos and Corinth end their shared government.

Titus and a brother whose name is not given were probably the bearers of the letter to the church at Corinth ( 2 Corinthians 2: 13 ; 8: 6, 16 – 18 ).

Herodotus ( 1, 23 ) says " Arion was second to none of the lyre-players in his time and was also the first man we know of to compose and name the dithyramb and teach it in Corinth ".

Sisyphus was son of King Aeolus of Thessaly and Enarete, and the founder and first king of Ephyra ( supposedly the original name of Corinth ).

Oedipus thus grew up in Corinth under the assumption that he was the biological son of Polybus and his wife ( whose name is Merope according to Sophocles, Periboa according to Appollodorus ).

Gibson, who suggested the name of Corinth, named for the city in Greece that also served as a crossroads.

The League of Corinth, also sometimes referred to as Hellenic League ( original name: Hellenes-' The Greeks ') was a federation of Greek states created by Philip II of Macedon during the winter of 338 BC / 337 BC after the Battle of Chaeronea, to facilitate his use of military forces in his war against Persia.

The name ' League of Corinth ' was coined by modern historians after the first council of the League in Corinth.

The name comes from the Anglo-French phrase " raisins de Corinthe " ( raisins of Corinth ) and the Ionian island of Zakynthos ( Zante ), which was once the major producer and exporter.

In the 14th century, they were sold in the English market under the label Reysyns de Corauntz, and the name raisins of Corinth was recorded in the 15th century, after the Greek harbor which was the primary source of export.

The fresh fruit of ' Black Corinth ', ' White Corinth ', and ' Red Corinth ' is often marketed under the name " Champagne grapes " in U. S. specialty stores, but despite the name, they are not used for making Champagne.

The village gets its name from the Greek city of Corinth.

Founded in the 7th century BC by Greek colonists from Corinth and Corcyra under the name Epidamnos, it has been continuously inhabited for 2, 700 years and is one of the oldest cities in Albania.

Campbell initially intended the name to be Corinth Park after the noted region in Greece.

Writers such as Nicholas Afanassieff and Alexander Schmemann have declared that the phrase " presiding in agape ", used of the Church of Rome in the letter that Ignatius of Antioch addressed to it in the first years of the 2nd century, contains a definition of that Church's universal primacy ; but the Roman Catholic writer Klaus Schatz warns that it would be wrong to read as statements of the developed Roman Catholic teaching on papal primacy this letter and the even earlier First Epistle of Clement ( the name of Clement was added only later ), in which the Church of Rome intervenes in matters of the Church of Corinth, admonishing it in authoritative tones, even speaking in the name of God.

The war was fought on two fronts, on land near Corinth ( hence the name ) and Thebes and at sea in the Aegean.

Khitai is his version of China, lying far to the East, Corinthia is his name for a Hellenistic civilization, a name derived from the city of Corinth and reminiscent of the imperial fiefdom of Carinthia in the Middle Ages.

* In Corinth, the Oracle of Corinth came from the town of Tenea, from prisoners supposedly taken in the Trojan War.

Struggle for the heartland: the campaigns from Fort Henry to Corinth.

Megara deserted the Spartan-led Peloponnesian League and allied herself with Athens, allowing construction of a double line of walls across the Isthmus of Corinth and protecting Athens from attack from that quarter.

He rejoined Paul when he was in Macedon, and cheered him with the tidings he brought from Corinth.

Upon his return to Athens, Aegeus married Medea, who had fled from Corinth and the wrath of Jason.

Hence it would follow that the war lasted from shortly after 507 BC down to the congress at the Isthmus of Corinth in 481 BC

Greek Corinth ian-style Corinthian helmet | helmet and the skull reportedly found inside it from the Battle of Marathon, now residing in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

The A7 toll motorway for Tripoli and Kalamata, ( and Sparta via A71 toll ), branches off the A8 / European route E94 toll motorway from Athens at Corinth.

The Corinth Canal, carrying ship traffic between the western Mediterranean Sea and the Aegean Sea, is about 4 km east of the city, cutting through the Isthmus of Corinth and separates the Peloponnesian peninsula from the Greek mainland, thus effectively making the former an island.

Most New Testament scholars believe Paul of Tarsus wrote this letter from Corinth, although information appended to this work in many early manuscripts ( e. g., Codices Alexandrinus, Mosquensis, and Angelicus ) state that Paul wrote it in Athens after Timothy had returned from Macedonia with news of the state of the church in Thessalonica (; ).

Additionally Phoebe was a deacon of the church in Cenchreae, a port to the east of Corinth, and would have been able to convey the letter to Rome after passing through Corinth and taking a ship from Corinth ’ s west port.

* προς Ρωμαιους εγραφη απο Κορινθου (" to the Romans it was written from Corinth "): B < sup > 2 </ sup >, D < sup > 2 </ sup > ( P );

* προς Ρωμαιους εγραφη απο Κορινθου δια Φοιβης της διακονου (" to the Romans it was written from Corinth by Phoebus the deacon "): 42, 90, 216, 339, 462, 466 *, 642 ;

* προς Ρωμαιους εγραφη απο Κορινθου δια Φοιβης της διακονου της εν Κεγχρεαις εκκλησιας (" to the Romans it was written from Corinth by Phoebus the deacon of the church in Cenchreae "): 101, 241, 460, 466, 469, 602, 603, 605, 618, 1923, 1924, 1927, 1932, followed by Textus Receptus.

The epistle was written from Ephesus ( 16: 8 ), a city on the west coast of today's Turkey, about 180 miles by sea from Corinth.