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Title: A classical and topographical tour through Greece, during the years 1801, 1805, and 1806
Year: 1819 (1810s)
Authors: Dodwell, Edward, 1767-1832 Mori, Ferdinando, 1782-1852 Pomardi, Simone, ca. 1760-1830
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Publisher: London, Rodwell & Martin
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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...The
Acrocorinth is at present regarded as the strongest fortification in
Greece, next to that of Nauplia [sic] in Argolis. It contains, within its
walls, a town and three mosques.
Athenaeus⁶ commends the water of the fountain Peirene, in the
Acrocorinthos, as the most salubrious in Greece ; and he compares
its⁷ excellence to that of Lerna. But it is uncertain whether he
alludes to the Lerna of Argolis, as there was another fountain of that
name at Corinth.⁸ It was at fount Peirene that Pegasus was drink-
ing, when taken by Bellerophon.⁹
After gushing from the rock, it branches into several small rills,
which find their way imperceptibly to the lower city,¹⁰ which, for
that reason, anciently merited the epithet of tvvdgov ua-rv.¹¹ I was
assured that there were scarcely any vestiges of antiquity within the

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¹ B. 8. p. 379. ² Poljb. b. 7. p. 505. Strabo, b. 8. p. 361. 3 Id. b.9. p. 428.
⁴ Plutaichs Life of Aratus. ⁵ Ibid. ⁶ Deipnosoph. b. 2. c. 5. ⁷ B. 4. c. 14.
⁸ Pausan. b. 2. c. 4. ⁹ Strabo, b. 8. p. 379. ¹⁰ Strabo, b. 8. p. 379.
¹¹ Simonides in Dion. Clirysostom. Orat. 37. p. 459.
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CORINTH

THE ACROCORINTHOS. 189

Acrocorinthos, and the walls appear to be of modern construction;
but the jealous vigilance of the Turks would not permit me to ap-
proach sufficiently near to as
certain if any part of them is ancient.
Strabo¹ and Pausanias² mention the temple of Venus within the
Acrocorinthos ; and the latter author³ says, that there is a fountain
behind the temple, and that its water forms the fount Peirene,
which is in the lower town. Strabo says that the Sisypheion was
below the fount Peirene, but he probably does not mean that it was
within the Acrocorinthos.
The Turks guard the fortress of Corinth with such suspicious soli-
citude, that even its approach is prohibited to strangers. Notwith-
standing these obstructions, which it seemed impossible to remove,
I felt a great unwillingness to be frustrated in a favourite project, of
taking a general view of the Isthmus, and two seas, from some ele-
vated spot in the vicinity. The only place which seemed likely to
afford this opportunity was a pointed rock, a few hundred yards to
the south-west of the Acrocorinthos, from which (as has already been
observed) is was battered by Mohamed II.

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