Corinth

Today we visited the ancient city of Corinth where St Paul founded a church, wrote two letters to the Thessalonians and later wrote to letters to the church at Corinth to address various issues that were causing trouble in this congregation.

Our first stop was at the Corinth Canal. This 225' deep cut was complete in 1893, even though it was first proposed in the 4th century BC and several Roman emperors also drew up plans to build it. While an impressive feat of engineering, it is mostly useless today due to it's small size.

Next we visited the ruins of the ancient seaport on the Aegean Sea which Paul used during his journeys. Not much is left, but I found it quite interesting. Corinth is located on an isthmus and was a large trading city. Goods would arrive at either the Aegean Sea or Corinthian Sea port, be traded, and shipped out the other port. A stone causeway was also in use for a while to portage entire ships across the isthmus, but I'm guessing it was not used very much.

This fully excavated street dates back to the time of St Paul so he most likely walked this very street as it led to a stage where many speeches were given.

We were both amazed at the large size of the ruins of the ancient city of Corinth. They are only partially excavated and much work remains. Work on some sections is much father along than others as you can see. Also a few buildings are being rebuilt from fallen pieces.

With so much of the ancient ruins reasonably intact, both Mary and I had a strong sense of history during our visit.

Tomorrow we fly back to Detroit and resume normal life. I'm sure it will take a few dys to get acclimated, but that is how it goes. Even our visit to Venice seems like it was so very long ago and that was just 2 weeks ago. This has been a wonderful trip and I hope you have enjoyed these posts as much as I have enjoyed writing them.