Travel to Corinth to visit one of the oldest and most prominent cities of ancient Greece, located 85 kms west of Athens.

The importance of Ancient Corinth resulted in large degree from its strategic location on a narrow isthmus between two gulfs. All land traffic and international maritime traffic as well was drawn to Corinth which had two ports and a shipway called the diolkos along the isthmus used for the transportation of goods and vessels from one port to the other. Corinth was already flourishing in the 7th century B.C. when the Isthmian Games were established at the temple of Poseidon. The city was destroyed by the Romans in 146 B.C. and was rebuilt about a century later by Julius Caesar as a Roman colony.

When Paul visited Corinth, it was a bustling crossroads of commerce and a political center, a city devoted to business and pleasure. He stayed there for eighteen months and founded a Congregation.

Follow Paul’s steps in the market place of Corinth, the agora which was lined with colonnades and public buildings. Near the center of the agora, excavations revealed an elevated outdoor speakers’ stand called the bema. Stand there and think of Paul being brought before Proconsul Gallio.

See the archaic temple of Apollo standing in the north of the Agora.