Ancient Corinth and Nemea

Friday, July 10, 2009

Corinth! (ally of Sparta) was one of my "must see's" when we first started thinking about what to do and see in in Greece.

It's connected to my favourite time frame of 500-400BC in several big ways.

1. Its where all the city states of Greece met to develop a strategy on resisting the impending Persian invasion of Greece in 480BC. It resulted in the defense at the Thermopylae pass and the battle of Plataea.

2. Its was an early instigator of the Peloponnesian War by attacking an ally of Athens. Corinth got Sparta involved in the whole mess originally, too.

3. Fought the Athenians in Syracuse which is a pretty amazing battle and really did the Athenians in.

A few pics:





The acropolis area

Temple of Apollo, beautiful

Olympic Run in Ancient Nemea