Corinth was the capital of Corinthia and it was wealthy. Acrocorinth mountain sat above the city. Corinth was razed to the ground a few times by raiders and rebuilt by the Romans but they were gratuitous gravediggers and plundered valuable bronze and gold ornaments and pots the Corinthians had buried with their dead to take to the next life. Necrocorinthia as it was fashionably called eventually went out of vogue so the people of Rome stopped decorating their villas with such items. Bit of a shame they didn't return the property to the dead Corinthians but that's the Romans for you. Civilised?
Below the mountain, below the temple of Aphrodite there was a spring dedicated to Peirene and it never overflowed and the water was beautiful clear and potable - pots were understandably important reticules and were decorated accordingly. Philip K Dick was a fan of pots and so is my mum so they've certainly rubbed off on modern society! The waters of Peirene spring flowed down Acrocorinth and into the waterways of Corinth which helped keep the residents healthy.
Sinkholes or zerethra were in Arcadia. Theseus slay a sow that was part of his Labours so it seems Labours were all part of the deal back in ancient Greece.
Parts of Peloponnesos and Hellas were named after their founders such as aigiatos for aigiatia. Doros who founded Doria. Hellen who was actually a bloke gave his name to the Hellenes and Hellas which in turn gave its name to the branch of John Lewis in Reading - Heelas. Ion was another son of an important Greek king who went on to found Ionia, also founding Ionia in southern Turkey. Aigiaos founded the aegian sea. Maleia mentioned.
Nice groves were dedicated to gods. Usually quite Arcadian these groves were. Nothing like Grove Road in Ware.
A giant bronze statue of Poseidon could be seen after the big flood, its head still poking defiantly above the swirling waters which completely inundated some cities. Many drowned and it was thought that someone had brought on the wrath of Poseidon.
Las was a city in northern Laconia. Said to be a port but this is massively debatable as Las was not just inland a few miles but practically near the border of Arcadia and it was serviced by no rivers, so what sort of port Las was is anyone's guess. (Someone just ordered a medium Spritzer but that's not important.)
Megaris was a little state that was situated between Corinthia and Attica. Corinth used to be the venue for the Isthmian games named because Corinth was on an isthmus - with goods coming from Asia on one side of the city and from Italia on the other side. A sort of early Istanbul. Marcius Lucullus and Lucius Mummius were Roman commanders in the area in the time of Strabo. They hung about round Argos and Corinth back in 10 BC. Supposedly some disrespectful Roman soldiers took down some nice art paintings and played games on them and ruined them so maybe the subject matter depicted on the paintings was not to their liking but all the same it's pretty childish behaviour which gives us an idea how some contingents of the Roman military behaved. Quite untoward really.
Herakleidai. A word that keeps cropping up. Dorians also had colonies in Lydia which is now modern Turkey. Achaians were named after Achaios. Achaia was the northernmost part of the Peloponnesos and Ionians were rehoused across the water from the Drepanium promontory. It was cut off and remote from the rest of the Peloponnesos because of a mountainous ridge.
Corinth was ridged and hollow and the old proverb goes 'Corinth is ridged and hollow' so there's no argument with that. Hollow is a word that crops up a lot as with Hollow Elis. More investigation is required. If I opened a pub I'd call it the Hollow Elis. Polybos was not Polybius or at least I don't think so but it could be one of Strabo's eponyms which he was liable to produce in his geographical writings. I think he's entitled to the odd eponym with his standing. Tight Stevens wouldn't be into eponyms.
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