place
Corinth
Wealthy Greek city sacked and razed by Lucius Mummius in 146 BC; named among the famous cities fallen to ashes.
Reading notes
- Consolation to Polybius §1 Corinth
Wealthy Greek city sacked and burned by Lucius Mummius in 146 BC.
- Medea §28 Corinth
The city of Creon and Creusa, on the Isthmus between two seas; setting of the play.
- Oedipus §784 Corinthian people
Corinth, which now summons Oedipus to the throne left by the dead Polybus.
- Thyestes §627 Corinth
The city on the isthmus, pressing the jaws of the twin sea.