8 November 2023
8 mins.
Due to its size and location, Corinth was prosperous. With prosperity came wealth, luxury, and immorality. The city was also home to sexual perversion and ritual prostitution, with many so-called “temples” dedicated to such behavior. In the ancient world, there was a Greek saying, korinthiazomai (“live like a Corinthian”), which everyone knew meant a lifestyle of decadent, unrestrained debauchery.