Corinth was famous for its art, architecture, bronze foundries, baths, temples, and law courts. But the morals of its pagan society were so corrupt that “to Corinthianize” came to mean to live a most dissolute life. There were thousands of priestesses in the temples (especially the temple of Aphrodite, the so-called goddess of love) who were slave girls used as prostitutes selling their bodies as a religious act to raise money for the temples. They also acted as entertainers in the night life of