- A city characterised by its competition and rivalry;
“She had a reputation for commercial prosperity but she was also a byword for living evil...The very name Corinth was synonymous with debauchery and there was one source of evil that was known all over the civilised world – the temple of Aphrodite, the goddess of love.”
-Priestesses (sacred prostitutes attached themselves to the temple) and from there descended in to the city at night.
Thus Corinth became not only a synonym for wealth and luxury, drunkenness and debauchery but also for filth.
SOURCE– William Barclay, The Letters to the Corinthians, p2-3.
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