The MOST Theological Collection: Commentary on the Pauline
Epistles (The Thought of St. Paul) "Chapter 6. First Letter to
Corinth" Corinth was a very ancient and important city. The site
was inhabited as early as the 4th millennium, but it did not
become a great power until the 8th century B.C. The peak of its
power was in the 6th century. It was destroyed by the Romans in
146 B.C. -- the same year in which they gave the same treatment
to Carthage. Some extremist Greeks mobbed some Roman senators at
Corinth. An army under Metellus came down from Macedonia, but
was not able to take the city. Then another Roman general,
Mummius, came with four legions, and captured the city. Rome
decided to make an example of Corinth -- all who were not killed
in the fighting were sold as slaves. The city was destroyed, was
in ruins until about 44 B.C., when Julius Caesar reestablished
it, tried to name it Laus Julii -- the praise of Julius -- but
the old name came back. Augustus made it the capital of Achaia,
the seat of Roman