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Corinth; Acrocorinth [Ancient Greek and Roman site]

View behind the third and final gate, as rebuilt by the Venetians

unknown (Greek (ancient))

site: Corinth, Peloponnese, Greece

ca. 680 BCE-1858 (inclusive)

Greek (ancient); Roman

Greek (ancient); Imperial (Roman)

excavation (site)

fortification

architecture

stone

part of Corinth [Ancient Greek and Roman site]

architectural exteriors; Crusades; Ottoman Empire and its heritage; Roman Empire

Acrocorinth, the acropolis of Corinth, is a monolithic rock overseeing the ancient city of Corinth, Greece. It was continuously occupied from archaic times to the early nineteenth century. The city's archaic acropolis, already an easily defendable position due to its geomorphology, was further heavily fortified during the Byzantine Empire as it became the seat of the strategos of the Thema of Hellas. Later it was a fortress of the Franks after the Fourth Crusade, the Venetians and the Ottoman Turks. With its secure water supply [the spring, Upper Peirene, was housed within an underground chamber atop Acrocorinth] Acrocorinth's fortress was used as the last defending line in southern Greece repelling foes from entering the Peloponnesian peninsula. Three circuit walls formed the man-made defense of the hill. The highest peak on the site was home to a temple to Aphrodite [sanctuary of Aphrodite Hoplismene] which was Christianized as a church, then became a mosque. The American School began excavations on it in 1

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