Historical place profile
Corinthus / Korinthos
Corinth controlled a strategic isthmus, became a Roman colony and hosted one of the best-documented Pauline communities.
Historical layers
- Greek polis and isthmian position
- Roman destruction and colonial refoundation
- Pauline mission and correspondence
- Late-antique Christian city
Church-history significance
Acts 18 and the Corinthian letters disclose worship, discipline, charisms, faction and apostolic authority in a concrete urban church.
Primary and geographic sources
- Pleiades place 570182
- Acts 18
- 1–2 Corinthians; Romans 16
Map semantics
The coordinate at 37.90564164345828, 22.878614390874485 is a representative_point_not_boundary. It anchors the place for research and does not assert one unchanging urban, political or ecclesiastical boundary across all periods.
Catalogue record
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:570182
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:570182
- Place type
- archaeological-site, settlement
- Precision
- precise
- Provenance
- Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 D2 Corinthus