Ancient Korinthos

The site has been occupied since the early Neolithic, and the city was a commercial center by the time history began to be recorded in the early 8th century BCE. The Romans destroyed the city while capturing the city in 146 BCE, and then re-established it in 44 BCE. Korinthos is famous as an early center of Christianity, although it was a small Jewish splinter sect and greatly outnumbered by other…