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DORIC TEMPLE. 1.9J
doubt that I should at least have been assailed by insult and con-
tumely.
Before the barbarous destruction of Corinth by the Roman
tyrants, that favoured city must have been extremely magnificent.
It was proverbial for its wealth as early as the time of Homer,1 and
was the emporium of Greece, and the great bulwark of the Pelo-
ponnesos. Its port, Kenchreai,* received the rich merchandize of
Asiatic luxury, and Lechaion3 that of Italy and Sicily. Its situa-
tion was so advantageous for the inexperienced navigation of early
times, that the first rudiments of nautical knowledge appear to have
been practised at Corinth; and the first naval battle that history
records, -was fought between Corinth and its colony Corcyra.4
Dion Clirysostom5 calls Corinth the prow and stern of Greece;
Tpupec zat Tgvf/sva. tik HLXXctoog.
Pausanias mentions in or near the city, a theatre, an odeion, a
stadium, and sixteen temples, some of which were near the ports;
he also notices several sepulchral monuments. Many of these
edifices had adorned the ancient city, and escaped the' havoc of
Roman rage. In the narrowest part of the isthmus, about three
miles to the east of Corinth, and probably in the place where the
games were celebrated, are seen the remains of a spacious theatre
and a stadium ; and less than a mile from Corinth, in the same
direction, the circuit and arena of a Roman amphitheatre are still
visible. The only Grecian ruin which at present remains at Corinth
is the Doric temple, which being published by Stuart,6 requires little
or no additional description. Du Loir, who travelled in 1654; says
that twelve columns of this temple were then standing; but what
confidence can be reposed in a -writer who, like Le Roy, counted
fourteen columns instead of thirteen on the flanks of the Thescion?
When Wheler visited Greece it had only eleven columns remaining,
but long after that period the magnifying imagination of Le Roy
1 Iliad, 2. v. 570. he calls it afmtf. * Strabo, b. 8. p. ?80. Ktyx?*ou. * Ai^aio*.
4 About 657 years B. C. » Orat. 37. p. 4C4. 6 Vol. 3. c. 6.
doubt that I should at least have been assailed by insult and con-
tumely.
Before the barbarous destruction of Corinth by the Roman
tyrants, that favoured city must have been extremely magnificent.
It was proverbial for its wealth as early as the time of Homer,1 and
was the emporium of Greece, and the great bulwark of the Pelo-
ponnesos. Its port, Kenchreai,* received the rich merchandize of
Asiatic luxury, and Lechaion3 that of Italy and Sicily. Its situa-
tion was so advantageous for the inexperienced navigation of early
times, that the first rudiments of nautical knowledge appear to have
been practised at Corinth; and the first naval battle that history
records, -was fought between Corinth and its colony Corcyra.4
Dion Clirysostom5 calls Corinth the prow and stern of Greece;
Tpupec zat Tgvf/sva. tik HLXXctoog.
Pausanias mentions in or near the city, a theatre, an odeion, a
stadium, and sixteen temples, some of which were near the ports;
he also notices several sepulchral monuments. Many of these
edifices had adorned the ancient city, and escaped the' havoc of
Roman rage. In the narrowest part of the isthmus, about three
miles to the east of Corinth, and probably in the place where the
games were celebrated, are seen the remains of a spacious theatre
and a stadium ; and less than a mile from Corinth, in the same
direction, the circuit and arena of a Roman amphitheatre are still
visible. The only Grecian ruin which at present remains at Corinth
is the Doric temple, which being published by Stuart,6 requires little
or no additional description. Du Loir, who travelled in 1654; says
that twelve columns of this temple were then standing; but what
confidence can be reposed in a -writer who, like Le Roy, counted
fourteen columns instead of thirteen on the flanks of the Thescion?
When Wheler visited Greece it had only eleven columns remaining,
but long after that period the magnifying imagination of Le Roy
1 Iliad, 2. v. 570. he calls it afmtf. * Strabo, b. 8. p. ?80. Ktyx?*ou. * Ai^aio*.
4 About 657 years B. C. » Orat. 37. p. 4C4. 6 Vol. 3. c. 6.