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Book 1
1.44.7 – The Molurian Rock: Ino and Melicertes escape Athamas
1.44.8 – The robber Sciron tosses travelers into the sea
1.44.9 – The Temple of Zeus Aphesios
1.44.10 – Borderlands: The descendants of Heracles
Book 2
Book 2.1
2.1.1 – The Land of Corinth and its Founders
2.1.2 – Rome’s Impact on Corinth
2.1.3 – The Road to Corinth continued: Memories of Theseus and Melicertes
2.1.4 – Sinis and Periphetes
2.1.5 – The Isthmus and Attempts to Build a Canal
2.1.6 – The Quarrel of Poseidon and Helios
2.1.7 – The Sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia
2.1.8 – Sanctuary of Poseidon (cont.)
2.1.9 – The Dioscuri
Book 2.2
2.2.1 – The heroon of Palaimon
2.2.2 – The graves of Sisyphus and Neleus
2.2.3 – The Road to Corinth continued: Corinth’s harbors, Lechaeum and Cenchreae
2.2.4 – Two famous tombs near the gates of Corinth: Diogenes and Lais
2.2.5 – The tomb of Lais (cont.)
2.2.6 – Monuments in the Corinthian agora
2.2.7 – The xoana of Dionysus (cont.)
2.2.8 – The west side of the agora
Book 2.3
2.3.1 – A bronze Athena and a Temple of Octavia
2.3.2 – The Road to Lechaeum
2.3.3 – Peirene Fountain
2.3.4 – A bronze Hermes
2.3.5 – Corinthian waterworks
2.3.6 – The Road to Sicyon: The Story of Glauce and Medea and the tomb of Medea’s children
2.3.7 – Rites in honor of Medea’s children
2.3.8 – Medea’s Flight to Athens and Beyond
2.3.9 – Other traditions about Medea’s children
2.3.10 – The Genealogy of the Rulers of Corinth: the Sons of Helios to Medea
2.3.11 – Medea’s attempt to make her children immortal
Book 2.4
2.4.1 – The Case of Bellerophon
2.4.2 – Bellerophon was never king of Corinth
2.4.3 – The Genealogy of the Rulers of Corinth: Sisyphus to Cypselus
2.4.4 – The Genealogy of the Rulers of Corinth: from the Dorians to Cypselus
2.4.5 – The Road to Sicyon: The Capitolium, gymnasium, the spring of Lerna, and the Sanctuary of Asclepius
2.4.6 – The Road to Acrocorinth
2.4.7 – Goddess Sanctuaries
Book 2.5
2.5.1 – Acrocorinth
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Bibliotheca
Theseus
A – Labors of Theseus
B – Labors of Theseus
C – Labors of Theseus
Semele
A – Semele and Ino
B – Semele and Ino
C – Semele and Ino
Ballerophon
A – Bellerophon
B – Bellerophon
C – Bellerophon
Medea
A – Medea at Corinth
B – Medea at Corinth
Paul
A Paul’s Mission to Corinth, Acts 18: 1-6
B Paul’s Mission to Corinth, Acts 18: 7-11
C Paul’s Mission to Corinth, Acts 18: 12-17
Communal Meals
A – The Politics of Communal Meals in Hellenistic Greece 1 Cor. 11: 17-22
B – The Politics of Communal Meals in Hellenistic Greece 1 Cor. 11: 23-27
C – The Politics of the Communal Meal in Hellenistic Greece, 1 Cor. 11: 28-34
Sack of Corinth
A – The Sack of Corinth, Zonaras 9. 31
B – The Sack of Corinth, Zonaras 9. 31
C – The Sack of Corinth, Strabo 8.6.23
D – The Sack of Corinth, Strabo 8. 6. 23
E – The Sack of Corinth, Strabo 8.6.23
Freedom of Greeks
A Flamininus Proclaims the “Freedom of the Greeks,” Polybius 18. 46. 1-4
B The “Freedom of the Greeks,” Polybius 18. 46. 5-8
C The “Freedom of the Greeks,” Polybius 18. 46. 9-12
D The “Freedom of the Greeks,” Polybius 18. 46. 13-15
Antipater
A – Antipater of Sidon, AP 9.151
B – Antipater of Sidon, AP 7.493
Diogenes
A – Diogenes the Cynic at the Isthmian Games, Dio Chrysostom 8.4-6
B – Diogenes the Cynic at the Isthmian Games, Dio Chrysostom 8.9-10
C – Diogenes the Cynic at the Isthmian Games, Dio Chrysostom 8.11-12
D – Diogenes the Cynic at the Isthmian Games, Dio Chrysostom 8.13, 15
E – Diogenes the Cynic at the Isthmian Games, Dio Chrysostom 8.25-27
F – Diogenes the Cynic at the Isthmian Games, Dio Chrysostom 8.36
Arion
A – Arion and the Dolphins, Plutarch Moralia 160d-e
B – Arion and the Dolphins, Plutarch, Moralia 160f
C – Arion and the Dolphins, Plutarch, Moralia 161a
D – Arion and the Dolphins, Plutarch, Moralia 161b
E – Arion and the Dolphins, Plutarch, Moraila 161c
F – Arion and the Dolphins, Plutarch, Moralia 161d
G – Arion and the Dolphins, Plutarch, Moralia 161e-162a
H – Arion and the Dolphins, Plutarch, Moralia 162b
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