ways Corinth may, therefore, be considered a new city, bound by few cultural traditions, other than those peculiar to a Roman colony and settled by people readily wanting to establish themselves. In this sense Corinth differs from many of its immediate neighbours in Greece. Strabo, who passed through Corinth on his way to Rome in 44 BC, points out that Corinth—possibly the most celebrated of Caesar’s colonies, Colonia Laus Julia Corinthiensis—was resettled for the most part with freedmen, for whom