Corinth ig, Br was, a city situated near the "isthmus which connects Peloponnesus and central Gree, and separates the Saronic and the Corinthian Gulfs on east and west. The territory was mostly rocky and unfertile, but its position at the head of two navigable gulfs clearly marked it out as a commercial centre.
Corinth's real prosperity dates from the time of the tyranny (657- 581 B.C.) established by a disqualified noble, Cypselus, and continued under his son Periander. Under these remarkable men the city rapidly developed, and extended her The tyranny was succeed-oligarchy based upon a graduated money qualification, and late in the sixth century Corinth Joined the Peloponnesian tei under Sparta, in which her financial strategic position Corinthians made waf upon Athi but in 395 B.C. they were compelled to conclude an alliance with Argos, and, in the ensifmg "Corinthian War," the city suffered severely.
Wars, and still more wars, followed until, in 46 A. D., Julius Caesar repeopled Corinth" with Italian freedman and dispossessed the Greeks. Under its new name, Lans Julii, and an Italian constitution, ly recovered its commercial prosperity. For generations, for centuries, it enjoyed a thriving trade, antu in 1147 ig was race by the Normans, and in 1210 D. it was joined to the Latin of the Morea, and sub-nly was contended for by various T: slian pretenders,—Since the Turkish conquest of 1459 A.D. history <f Corinth has been uneventful save for a raid by the Maltese in 1011 and Venetian o¢- cupation from 2687.A.D, to 1715)
The modern town was founded ISTS, when the old town was nea ly completely destroyed by an earth quake on February'21, The new Corinth never attained the great ty of the old Corinth, and, it of the creations of the rally unavtraetive. The population, according to a recent census, vwas'Tess than 6,000. logical interest nity have been scene of much activity fon the part of excavators who have brought to light many' important monuments of the ancient city,
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