Corinth

For the Corinthians, having their city situated on the isthmus, had always possessed an emporium;

So the Epidamnians went to Corinth, and according to the advice of the oracle, gave up their city, declaring how the first founder of it was a Corinthian, and what answer the oracle had given them;

In command of these there were different men for the different forces according to their states, and of the Corinthians, Xenoclides, the son of Euthycles, with four others.

These things having taken place, the defeated troops at first fled to the walls of Corinth;

And from that time on the Athenians, Boeotians, Argives, and their allies continued the war, making Corinth their base, and the Lacedaemonians and their allies from Sicyon.

And as the two armies marched on, the Corinthians and their allies were in the district of Nemea, and the Lacedaemonians and their allies at Sicyon, at almost the same time.

And at the time he happened to be passing his time in the Craneum alone;

and there he passed his time in the public buildings and the temples, which are established for the gods, and held the whole earth to be his hearth, which is indeed the common hearth and nurse of men.

and when he had come to Corinth and received the embassies from the Greeks and settled the other affairs of the allies, he told those about him that he wished to have a little leisure, and went off—not to the door of Diogenes;

So the crew sailed away to Corinth;

Periander, who disclosed the oracle's answer to Thrasybulus, was the son of Cypselus, and sovereign of Corinth.

They say that this Arion, who spent most of his time with Periander, wished to sail to Italy and Sicily, and that after he had made a lot of money there he wanted to come back to Corinth.

Dionysius, indeed, the tyrant, driven from Syracuse, taught boys at Corinth:

and the suddenly-seen ruins of Corinth had moved me more than the Corinthians themselves, over whose minds a long pondering had drawn the callus of age.

Creon drives me forth in exile from Corinth.

I heard one say, pretending not to listen as I approached the place where our greybeards sit playing draughts near Pirene’s sacred spring, that Creon, the ruler of this land, is bent on driving these children and their mother from the boundaries of Corinth;

for then would my own mistress Medea never have sailed to the turrets of Iolcos, her soul with love for Jason smitten, nor would she have beguiled the daughters of Pelias to slay their father and come to live here in the land of Corinth with her husband and children, where her exile found favour with the citizens to whose land she had come, and in all things of her own accord was she at one with J …

My father was Polybus of Corinth, my mother the Dorian Merope.

When I heard this, I turned in flight from the land of Corinth, from then on thinking of it only by its position under the stars, to some spot where I should never see fulfillment of the infamies foretold in my evil fate.

Oedipus:

And yet, Demosthenes, this mother of mine went out to Corinth an exile, with her husband, and shared the disasters of the democracy;

I should like to be informed of the value of Corinth to us, if Boeotia leaves our ranks and makes peace with Sparta.

You, on the other hand, say that even things which will not be can come to pass—such as that this gem should be broken, even though it never will be—and that it was not necessary for Cypselus to reign at Corinth, although that had been declared a thousand years before by the oracle of Apollo.

And what I said of Corinth, I know not but that one might most truly say of all Greece;

Nor indeed did any thing more overthrow both Carthage and Corinth at last—long shaken—than this straying and dispersal of the citizens, who, through the desire of trade and seafaring, had forsaken the cultivation of their fields and of arms.

So Clement, in his Epistle to the Corinthians, says, word for word, setting out the distinctions of those approved in the Church:

As for the seventh, some say he was Periander the Corinthian, some Anacharsis the Scythian, and some Epimenides the Cretan — whom the Apostle Paul mentions in the Epistle to Titus, saying thus:

but when the great battle against the Lacedaemonians was fought near Corinth, and when the party in that city determined after the battle not to admit our soldiers within their walls, but to send heralds to greet the Lacedaemonians, these men, though they saw that Athens had lost the day and that our enemies were holding the pass, refused to betray us or to take steps for their own individual safe …

I am told that on a previous occasion the state maintained a mercenary force at Corinth, commanded by Polystratus, Iphicrates, Chabrias, and others, and that you citizens also served in person;

These men, taking along with them the dispatch from Antipater that came to Corinth addressed to Deinarchus, have filled all the cities in the Peloponnesus with such reports as I pray that the gods may turn back upon their own heads.

The Athenians of those days had good reason to bear malice against the Corinthians and the Thebans for their conduct during the Decelean War;

After this, then, she had two lovers, Timanoridas the Corinthian and Eucrates the Leucadian.

After this, you must know, she plied her trade openly in Corinth and was quite a celebrity, having among other lovers Xenocleides the poet, and Hipparchus the actor, who kept her on hire.

Hipparchus of Athmonon deposes that Xenocleides and he hired in Corinth Neaera, the present defendant, as a courtesan who prostituted herself for money, and that Neaera used to drink at Corinth in the company of himself and Xenocleides the poet.

or to snatch up arms and march against Corinth or Megara, but to let Philip enslave Greek cities, because you are short of rations for a campaign.

Now there was a certain man named Euchenor, son of Polyidos the seer [ mantis], a brave man and wealthy, whose home was in Corinth.

Again, when he was on the point of starting for Corinth on military service, he made a will in case anything happened to him and devised his property to Archedamus's daughter, his own sister and my mother, providing for her marriage with Lacratides, who has now become hierophant.

For he served first at Corinth, then in Thessaly and again throughout the Theban war, and wherever else he heard of an army being collected, he went abroad holding a command;

), he sent the latter's nephew Cephisodotus with his own brother Harmodius to Corinth as a body servant;

but, thanks to their commander and to the alliance which was formed at Corinth, they barely succeeded in winning a naval victory.

Living at Megara and using as capital the money which he had withdrawn from Athens he shipped corn, bought from Cleopatra, from Epirus to Leucas and from there to Corinth.