Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Corinth, Cont'd

 Corinth was the most important city in the days of Saint Paul - we visited the ruins of the ancient city where Paul worked with Aquila and Priscilla.  Saw the ruins of first century shops, the agora where Paul's trial by Gallio took place, the fountain of Peirene, temple of Apollo and the Bema.  Ancient Corinth was one of the largest and most important cities of Greece, with a population of 90,000 in 400 BC.  The Romans demoloished Corinth in 146 BC and built a new city in its place - later it became the capital of Greece!

So after lunch we headed out to the ruins!  





Oh my gosh!!  SO MUCH HISTORY!!  So much to see - we were all on overload!!





It was a long, long day!!  Once again we were all very tired but tonight we were all going out to a restaurant for dinner!  As we walked there, I enjoyed seeing all the little steep streets that had restaurants on them - so cute!!  I'm sure the waiters got a workout doing those steps!


We had 3 choices to choose from for dinner - I had the chicken which was cut into strips with an excellent sauce to dip it in - they brought out salad and bread and potato slices that had been deep fried and the food just kept coming!!  One of the gals ordered a round of ouza, a famous Greek drink, so we all took a taste - oh my - I could hardly swallow it!!  It tasted like black licorice (which I don't like anyway!!)  


All in all a wonderful meal!!  On the walk back to our hotel, we stopped and listened to these guys play - what great Greek music to end the night!



2 comments:

DrKeppy said...

Wow the ruins look so amazing! I'm sure it was incredible to see them in person!

Jill said...

I was just thinking, So much history write before you said it!