Where is Corinth?

Question

Just wondering about the First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians ... wanted to put Geography to the scripture. Thx.

Answer 1

There is a narrow stretch of land, called the isthmus of Corinth, that connects the two parts of Greece. On the south of that isthmus and a little to the west is an ancient port city called Corinth. In ancient times, Corinth was a minor player in the city states of Greece, along with such obvious names as Athens, Sparta, and Thebes. The famous cynic philosopher Diogenes, fabled searcher of honest men with a lit lantern during the day and living in a barrel at night, lived his later years in Corinth and was buried there. When Rome was subjugating the Greeks, they sacked and burned Corinth. One of the things that brought Julius Ceasar to fame and prosperity was the building development that was the new city of Corinth. Ship travel was a hazardous thing and some of the ships that people and cargo traveled in were hazards of their own, so rather than sail around Greece, they would, much as we did with Panama before the canal was dug, haul stuff over the few miles of land and reload on ships on the other side for the rest of the journey, say between what are today cities on the Turkish coast (often referred to as Asia Minor then) and places in Italy or the Dalmatian coasts (what used to be Yugoslavia), etc.

One of the early major Christian churches was at Corinth, founded by the apostle Paul and with two letters included in the Christian Bible (New Testament) addressing problems in the church (1 & 2 Corinthians). The Romans dug a canal across it, which can be seen and sailed today.

Answer 2

The City of Corinth
Corinth was a thriving city; it was at the time the chief city of Greece both commercially and politically.

Its commerce. Located just off the Corinthian isthmus, it was a crossroads for travelers and traders. It had two harbors: (1) Cenchrea, six miles to the east on the Saronic Gulf, and (2) Lechaion, a mile and a half to the north on the Corinthian Gulf. Goods were transported across the isthmus on the Diolkos, a stone road by which smaller ships could be hauled fully loaded across the isthmus, and by which cargoes of larger ships could be transported by wagons from one side to the other. Trade flowed through the city from Italy and Spain to the west and from Asia Minor, Phoenicia and Egypt to the east.

*** It was on an isthmus separating the Ionian and Aegean seas. +/- 60 km west of Athens.

There seems to have been ANOTHER LETTER from Paul to the church which is not preserved.

Answer 3

The Corinth Canal is in Greece, so I would guess Corinth is in Greece too.

Answer 4

a peninsula in Greece I think

Answer 5

Yes, it is in Greece.