The history of ancient Corinth

    Phillip II Corinth was among the three most powerful towns of Greece during 5th century BC and took place in the battles with Persians both in the sea and the land. Once Greeks were no more menaced by Persians, the Corinthians came into conflict with the newer yet more powerful than the.

    Acrocorinth   A small Neolithic settlement was the only establishment in the position of Corinth during the 4th millennium BC. The factors that lead this small agricultural population establishing there were the water from Peirene and the naturally fortified Acrocorinth.

Ancient Agora of Corinth Engravings One hundred years after the destroy of Corinth by the Romans Julius Caesar implemented a plan for the reconstruction of the cities that had been destroyed as he indented to send Romans for colonization over there. The first colonies.

  Ancient Corinth   The arrival of Dorians in Corinth resulted in a big population rise which in turn led to a series of colonisations. Thus, Corinthians founded two important colonies in the west, Corfu and Syracuse, in the 8th century BC.