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So Shalom from ancient Corinth, a city that is about 50 miles south of Athens and about two miles

south of the Isthmus which is the land bridge connecting Peloponnesus in the south with mainland Greece in the north

where in an amazing city that was located here and enjoyed that specific geographical location for so many different reasons.

But of course the main one is the fact that one side of the isthmus is actually facing the west facing

Rome while the other side of the isth is actually facing the east facing Asia Minor, facing Ephesus and all the other major cities.

And basically what happened is they used to be two major seaports on the two sides of the isthmus and one side will

up will unload the cargo from the main ships and they would be dragged if there were smaller boats they would be

dragged on a paved road to the other side to law to just go back to sea waters, yet if they were big ships, there was no other ray but to unload

from one ship and reload on another one.

And so you're talking about two major seaports

that attracted commerce of both sides of the ancient world of the time. You're talking about an attraction of both

seamen on traction of of businessmen, attraction of travelers, and of course

attraction also of people who are coming to worship the

different deities that this particular city had temples four.

Behind me is actually the remains of the temple of Apollo.

If you remember Apollo is the God of Sun, the God of the Light, the God of Poetry, the God of

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