SCHOINOUS
(Kalamaki) Corinthia, Greece.
The diolkos, a paved roadway for transporting ships and
cargo across the Isthmus of Corinth, terminated at
Schoinous on the Saronic Gulf (
Strab. 8.6.4, 22; 9.1.2;
Pompon. 2.48; Ptol. 3.16.13; Plin.
HN 4.7). According
to Schol. on Pindar
Isthm. Argum., the body of Melikertes, who was worshiped as the god Palaimon at the
Isthmian Sanctuary, was carried here by a dolphin.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
IG IV
2 71, lines 23-24. H. N. Fowler &
R. Stillwell,
Corinth I, i: Introduction. Topography.
Architecture (1932) 49; J. R. Wiseman,
The Land of the
Ancient Corinthians (forthcoming).
J. R. WISEMAN