refounded in 44 B.C. by Julius Caesar as a Roman colony.3 The reason for its refounding was probably twofold. First, its strategic location for commerce (described by Strabo) made its refounding almost inevitable. All the necessary ingredients for economic boom were available: a natural defense in the Acrocorinth; adequate water supply from springs; the relationship to Rome; being master of the two harbors for East-West commerce; and control of the Isthmian games, which ranked just below the Olympian
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