Ancient Corinth and the Patapia Monastery

Corinth was an eternal opponent of Athens, becoming the capital of southern Greece when it became a Roman province in the 2nd century BC. Horace and Cicero studied wisdom here, Julius Caesar studied Plato and Aristotle, and Emperor Hadrian admired the statues that the local museum still holds. Since the Trojan War, Corinthian amphorae, aribals and pyphoses have been famous throughout the Mediterranean, and Corinthian heteras have set the tone in fashion.

At the beginning of a new era at the Roman Forum, which has survived to this day, the Apostle Paul wrote “Epistle to the Corinthians” with the famous and not aging hymn about love: “If I speak in human and angelic languages, and I do not have love, then I am a brass ringing or cymbal sounding ....”

From the tribune begins an ancient paved road to the sea, decorated with the temple of Apollo of the 6th century BC, the complex of the Pyrenne spring, in which the water still murmurs and a temple with luxurious Corinthian capitals in honor of Octavia.

In the museum, built in the style of a country Roman villa, you will see remarkable pottery of the 7-5 centuries BC, smiling archaic sphinxes, a statue of Aesculapus and offerings to the god of medicine, a unique floor mosaic of patrician villas surrounded by marble statues of Julius Caesar and the family of Emperor Octavian Augustus. And we will end the tour with a tour of two theaters (small and large) with a panoramic view of the Corinthian Gulf of the Ionian Sea.