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Pausanias, Description of Greece, Corinth, chapter 5 (search)
goes to the Peloponnesus and forms the Asopus. I remember hearing a similar story from the Delians, that the stream which they call Inopus comes to them from the Nile. Further, there is a story that the Nile itself is the Euphrates, which disappears into a marsh, rises again beyond Aethiopia and becomes the Nile. Such is the account I heard of the Asopus. When you have turned from the Acrocorinthus into the mountain road you see the Teneatic gate and a sanctuary of Eilethyia. The town called Tenea is just about sixty stades distant. The inhabitants say that they are Trojans who were taken prisoners in Tenedos by the Greeks, and were permitted by Agamemnon to dwell in their present home. For this reason they honor Apollo more than any other god. As you go from Corinth, not into the interior but along the road to Sicyon, there is on the left not far from the city a burnt temple. There have, of course, been many wars carried on in Corinthian territory, and naturally houses and sanctuarie
Xenophon, Agesilaus (ed. E. C. Marchant, G. W. Bowersock, tr. Constitution of the Athenians.), chapter 2 (search)
supreme power in Asia, to rule and to be ruled at home according to the constitution. Some time afterwards, finding that the Argives were enjoying the fruits of their land, that they had appropriated Corinth and were finding the war a pleasant occupation, he made an expedition against them. He first laid waste all their territory, then crossed to Corinth by the passThe MSS. of Xen. Hell. 4.4.19 give kata\ *tege/an in the corresponding passage; this is corrected to kata\ *tene/an “by way of Tenea,” which is probably the right reading here. and captured the walls leading to Lechaeum. Having thus unbarred the gates of Peloponnese, he returned home for the festival of HyacinthusCelebrated annually at Amyclae, early in the summer. and joined in singing the paean in honour of the god,Apollo, who had accidentally killed Hyacinthus. taking the place assigned to him by the choirmaster. After a time, discovering that the Corinthians were keeping all their cattle safe in Peiraeum, and sowi