GREECE PELOPONNESE KORINTHIA CORINTH SITE

Above and below: The Bema, at the center of the Roman forum, is a large elevated rostrum from where the city's officials addressed the public. It is here that, according to tradition, the Apostle Paul was put to trial on the accusation of conducting illegal teachings. Proconsul Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus, also known as Gallio, however, refused to judge what he considered to be a mere religious dispute among the Jews.

Saint Paul had arrived in Corinth 18 months earlier in the mid-1st century and took up lodging and work with the Jewish tentmakers Aquila and Priscilla. At the same time, he reasoned and preached to the Jews of the city, being confronted, however, with strong opposition from several members of the city's large Jewish community. When he left for Ephesus after the trial he had established a strong and well-organized church in the city.

Above left: View across the Roman forum. - Above right: One of the Northwest-stores, of which there were 16 originally. - Below left: The "Wall of Triglyphs" with the entrance to the Scared Spring on the rear left. - Below right: The "Captives façade" belongs to a Roman basilica, originally two-storeyed, where the columns of the second storey were replaced by larger-than-life-sized sculptures of barbarians.

Below: Parts of the water supply or sewage system of ancient Corinth.