corinth

Macedon, Thrace, Thessaly and the Greek states of the League of Corinth together are more than 1% of Alexander's empire.

Paul says as much in his letter to the early church in Corinth [0].

Emperor Nero invested millions of man-hours into the Corinth Canal, but that did at least eventually get some use a mere 1,800 years later.

- Bungee jumped for the second time in my life, this time in Corinth and double the height (78m) of my previous jump.

Same thing happened to Corinth (actually in the same year as Carthage was destroyed) except that supposedly unlike in Carthage the entire male population was murdered and only the women and children were sold into slavery.

> honest crypto exchanges I am reminded of Diogenes walking the streets of Corinth during the day with a lantern, looking for an honest man.

In 1147 while Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos was focusing all his efforts on the Second Crusade, the Norman king Roger II of Sicily attacked Corinth and Thebes, two important centres of Byzantine silk production.

Trying to build an Antikythera mechanism but I keep being handed wax tablets notifying me about 4 people liking the murals my friend made about his visit to Corinth last month, and now my politically weird uncle has apparently added me to a group celebrating the thirty tyrants of athens.

I imagine urban people in cosmopolitan centers (like that university town Corinth that my namesake wrote a letter to) of an artisan or merchant or intellectual class would have very much liked a game like Dungeons and Dragons and would have come up with similar weapons tables, monster books, spell lists, theology, etc.

Installations, machinery and quays were destroyed." The Germans also blew up the strategic Corinth canal.

"Greece" stopped existing as a country in 146 BC, when the Romans defeated its last city state, Corinth.

Well not literally “all” but the populations of large/huge cities like Corinth, Carthage and others were exterminated/enslaved and millions of slave were imported into Italy to work and die in extremely gruesome conditions (depending on the estimates the numbers were comparable to the entire Atlantic slave trade) > You don't really know how Rome worked, do you?

> "It's taking longer to launch, there is some more debt, but in the long run, millennials are actually doing better than Generation X and baby boomers," says Kevin Corinth, a senior fellow and deputy director of the Center for Opportunity and Social Mobility at the American Enterprise Institute and one of the paper's authors.

Corinth would be more trade based and consider buying mercenaries and buying out the other city states.

On my first trip to most antique Corinth, someone noticed the fine Casio timepiece from my last (Reagan-era -- ca.

Ancient Greece had a paved road used to haul ships across the Isthmus of Corinth.