Ancient Corinth (Archaia Korinthos)

Entry containing 4 photos titled: Temple of Apollo, Ancient City of Corinth, Ancient Corinth Springs, Museum of Ancient Corinth

One day in Greece was enough to make me aware of myself. Was this something I wanted? Arriving in Nafplion last night, I felt myself succumb. To hear the wind up on this balcony. To smell the boundless blue void of the sea. There, in the old city, scattered in its space, these blissful moments. Another world in the world. A world of bending. A …

10TH OCTOBER 2012 (Cont’d) - We get to Temple of Poseidon and then head south to some beautiful countryside of heaps of beachside and seaside apartments. Heaps of them look like they are locked and vacant for summer. We continue to drive for a few hours and then it poured rain, luckily not for too long. We end up driving back towards Athens …

Which, of course, brings up the problematic truth that I'm neither a sailor nor inclined nor allowed on this trip to participate in the various activities that earned Corinth this name back in the day, but where we stayed there were probably sailors and it was certainly something akin to paradise, so it'll stand.

Our day trip down to the …

... , hoping that we weren't going to pass anyone. We found a parking place and pulled in under a tree. The ruins of Ancient Corinth were straight ahead. Jeremiahs pants, with the sprite stain, were just too tempting to one of the bees. Jeremiah ...

... Sunday, a handful of students came back to this bridge to bungee jump into the canal! Then we made the stop Godiva came for, ancient Corinth. Godiva marveled that we could walk right up to the carved marble of the ruins on the site and touch it. So ...

... , traders, and prostitutes. As Indy put the double entendre, "Only real men made it in Corinth." From the ruins of ancient Corinth, we could see the Acrocorinth, the high rock with an ancient fortification at the top. I was still feeling less than ...

... . The scene is pleasant, but many Classical era stones and building elements can be seen among the trees. The ancient village clearly lies under this orchard, but in Greece, you can't cut down an olive orchard to excavate. The trees represent a family's ...

... boats from one port to the other.  More pictures, more not bungee jumping, then back on the bus to the ancient city of Corinth. Ancient Corinth is unique among most cities in the world in that it had two ports and thus double the sailors waiting ...

... ;s also a natural spring at the site of the fountain, which also has been used since ancient times and still supplies Ancient Corinth with water!).  After a while, we walked along the large Lecheon Road (once the main thoroughfare to the port of ...

... " of 120kph (and we were passed like we were going backwards), we thought we could probably manage it.   Our first stop was ancient Corinth.  Most of the ruins on the site are Roman, which made most of it not useful for Karen's purposes but ...

... the site of the ancient city until the mid-nineteenth century when an earthquake destroyed it. The acrokorinth was the acropolis of ancient Corinth and is on a huge hill that's like 2000 feet high. From this high point, they could control all entrance ...

  Corinthian Travels in the Gulf of Corinth The word "Corinthian" derives from the ancient inhabitants of Corinth who were renowned for their skills at Horseriding (Gina and I both enjoy that), Sailing ('nuff said) and Fighting (Gina has a mean ...

... evidence. There is also a base stone that has the name Sosthenes on it, a synagogue ruler from the New Testament. Corinth had many resources for water from the pubic water fountains and cisterns. These were some of the few structures not destroyed by ...