After this revival of Corinea, there was a second destruction, even more terrible than the first. Alaric, the destroyer of Aein and all of Sin, burned and destroyed everything here. The city had barely begun to revive after the second shock when Sultan Murad imposed tribute on it in 14147. It is easy to understand that in a country troubled by incessant wars, Akrokorin was a point too important and necessary for one or another warring side. The Morean despots, brothers of the last Emperor of Constantinople, refused to pay tribute to the Turks. Mohammed Ts besieged and took Korine in 4459. From then on, the whole country submitted to the Turks, and Korine could no longer rebel.
Now the city consists of scattered smoking houses. There are some decent houses, but few inhabitants.
73 One part of the city, around the bazaar, is populated. Abandoned and deserted mosques are visible everywhere; there are cypress trees around them; Some fields are covered with grain; there are orange and lemon orchards. All this is quite picturesque, but dead. The air in summer is not healthy, and in the fall it even becomes lethal, and therefore the wealthy residents retire to the villages. When I was in Korinev, the heat was unbearable, and I was in a hurry to inspect its location. The only beauty of the view from Akrokorinea attracted my attention: without any exaggeration, we can say that almost all of Gray is visible from here. On the one hand appears Akha, Sik1on, Argos, mountains Pareemus and Taygetos, Nauplia and Palamidi, the majestic Gulf of Argossus, and the shores of Lakovi; the Gulf of Lepanta is visible below; on the other side Megara, Salamis and Eleusis are visible. With a telescope you could see the ships leaving Piraeus! Aeina, Epidaurus, Aegina, Calabraya, Kieron.... 0, with all my heart I am dissatisfied with three such objects for completeness of feeling |...
I found eleven Doric colonies in Akrokorinev; ‘But where are the magnificent chambers in which luxury and voluptuousness reigned? GDB young priestesses of Venus, who attract young people from all over to the holidays and fun? Everything has disappeared! Poverty and disease are everywhere. It is a thousand times more pleasant to read the story of Cornnea than to look for his name and guess where this Corine was. It is delightful, however, to think that when everything is forgotten, the poor wanderer who left this city remains unforgettable forever, and in the silence of erecting the immortal monument, alone remained unshakable in the midst of the ruins of Gresha. This wanderer is the same one who wrote the message to Coral, and to this day comforts the sorrows and inspires the hopes of the inhabitants of this devastated region. The Orthodox VBra, preached by him, one might say, is one utszlbla, like an undying—vfchnoe. | Nmets Ma1or, the commandant here, willingly lets you into Akropolis. Mr. M is a kind, talkative person, and if he is not very firm in History, Archaeologists, and often gets confused in names, he generously compensates for these shortcomings with his kindness, politeness and readiness to please those who build his ruins.
You have to climb Akrokorino for about an hour, and along the roads there are fragments of columns and capitals scattered everywhere; There are also whole ones, made of polished marble. On the tops you can find out where Prlensuj Klyuch was. I am sure that some building bas-reliefs and inscriptions have not yet been described. pi km. The priest of Grele showed me a bust, recently dug; this bust is made of wild marble; he was out of his depth, but it seemed to me that he was portraying Emperor Adran; his work, it seems, is not a glorious one.
The Korinesky isthmus is very narrow. The ancients write that it was only in one place. LO stages in width, and here was “Dolkos, they drank a portage along which, by means of machines, they dragged small ships from one sea to another. This also happened during the last war between the Turks and the Veneshans. More than once they attempted to ‘connect both seas, the Shekoe and the Aegean, through the middle of the canal. Dimitar Polorcet was the first to undertake this; but the producers of the work They told him that the waters of the Gulf of Corino were much higher than those of Cenchreia, and therefore would inevitably flood the islands of Aegina and Prose, without any benefit.
Then Yul Caesar, Caligula, Nero wanted to do the same; the latter had already begun work on the Leheum side; but dug only four herds. Granite stopped the workers every time: they were unable to defeat its hardness. I looked at the slabs of work and realized that in our time, with the help of gunpowder, the granite layer could easily be destroyed.