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    Acrocorinth (Greek: Ακροκόρινθος, lit. 'Upper Corinth' or 'the acropolis of ancient Corinth') is a monolithic rock overlooking the ancient city of Corinth...
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  • The Temple of Aphrodite at Acrocorinth was located in a sanctuary on the acropolis in Ancient Corinth dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite. It was the main...
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    closest to the sea, belonged to Poseidon, and the acropolis of Corinth (Acrocorinth), closest to the sky, belonged to Helios. The Upper Peirene spring is...
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  • Acrocorinth was a temple in Ancient Corinth, dedicated to the goddesses Demeter and Kore (Persephone). The sanctuary was situated on the Acrocorinth,...
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    On July 17, 2007, a forest fire struck the area around the historic Acrocorinth and its castle. The main sources of income are goods and services, manufacturing...
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    the early 4th century BC. After the Macedonian conquest of Greece, the Acrocorinth was the seat of a Macedonian garrison until 243 BC, when the city joined...
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    besieged the Acrocorinth, the rest ravaged the peninsula. After the fall of the Acrocorinth, the two Palaiologoi brothers capitulated. Acrocorinth, Thomas'...
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    seized the Macedonian-held citadel of Acrocorinth, previously believed impregnable. After conquering the Acrocorinth, Aratus pursued the Achaean League's...
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    in the acropoleis of Thebes (Cadmea) and Corinth (Acrocorinth). The occupation of the Acrocorinth ensured the neutrality of Corinth and also prevented...
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    Sieges Patras Salona Navarino Livadeia 1st Acropolis Tripolitsa Arta Acrocorinth Nauplia 1st Messolonghi 2nd Messolonghi 3rd Messolonghi 2nd Acropolis...
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    Acropolis of Athens, but nearly every Greek city-state had one – the Acrocorinth is famed as a particularly strong fortress. In a much later period, when...
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  • as the extreme lack of troops available: in 1702, the garrison at the Acrocorinth, which covered the Isthmus of Corinth, the main invasion route from the...
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    Janissaries moved onto the Isthmus of Corinth and the two fortresses of Acrocorinth and Nauplia, the main Venetian strongholds in the Morea. In the meantime...
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    According to Pausanias, there was a sanctuary to Bia and Ananke on the Acrocorinth. "Hesiod, Theogony, line 371". www.perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2024-02-24...
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    inspired by the Ottoman massacre of the Venetian garrison holding the Acrocorinth in 1715 – an incident in the Ottoman reconquest of the Morea during the...
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    Greek world. Corinth also had a major temple to Aphrodite located on the Acrocorinth and was one of the main centers of her cult. Records of numerous dedications...
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    evidence of armed Aphrodites known from a number of locations in Cythera, Acrocorinth and Sparta, and which may have been a whip. The Kama Sutra of India describes...
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    Athens, Argos (with Larisa), Thebes (with Cadmea), Corinth (with its Acrocorinth), and Rhodes (with its Acropolis of Lindos). It may also be applied generically...
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    cuisine Eastern Orthodox Christianity Byzantine law Hexabiblos Monuments Acrocorinth Angelokastro (Corfu) Athens Church of the Holy Apostles Daphni Monastery...
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    naval victory against the Ptolemies at Andros, the Macedonians lost the Acrocorinth to the forces of Aratus in 243 BC, followed by the induction of Corinth...
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    maintained garrisons at key strategic points such as Chalcis, Piraeus and Acrocorinth, the so-called "fetters of Greece". In other cities of the Peloponnese...
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  • After this victory, an Argive army marches to Corinth, and, seizing the Acrocorinth, effectively merges Argos and Corinth. Dionysius I, tyrant of Syracuse...
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    The Upper Pirene spring, with its own etiological myth, is located on Acrocorinth, the acropolis of Corinth. Pirene, a nymph who, according to legend,...
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    that all derive from the cult statue in the temple of Aphrodite on the Acrocorinth, which depicted Aphrodite admiring herself in a shield. Christine Mitchell...
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    The city of Corinth, where the Epistle to the Romans was written, a view from the summit of Acrocorinth (2007)...
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    forced him back into the Peloponnese. Blockaded in his stronghold on the Acrocorinth, he committed suicide in 1208. Leo Sgouros succeeded his father, Theodore...
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    View of the Acrocorinth...
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    Description of Greece, Pausanias notes two Serapeia on the slopes of Acrocorinth above the rebuilt Roman city of Corinth, and one at Copae in Boeotia...
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    Isthmus of Corinth belonged to Poseidon and the acropolis of Corinth (Acrocorinth) to Helios. The third-century BC poet Callimachus, apparently confusing...
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    was tasked to settle the dispute between the two gods; he awarded the Acrocorinth to Helios, while Poseidon was given the isthmus of Corinth. Aelian wrote...
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