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The modern Gulf of Lepanto, an arm of the sea running in between the coast of Achaia and Sicyonia to the south, and that of Phocis, Locris, and Aetolia to the north. The gulf had the general appellation of Corinthian as far as the Isthmus, but it was divided into smaller bays, the names of which were sometimes poetically used for the entire gulf. Its different names were the Crissaean, Cirrhaean, Delphic, Calydonian, Rhian, and Halcyonian.
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Corinthiacus Sinus (Korinthiakos, or Korinthios kolpos, Gulf of Lepanto), the
gulf between Northern Greece or Hellas Proper, and the Peloponnesus. It commenced,
according to Strabo (viii. p. 335, seq.), at the mouth of the Evenus in Aetolia
(some said at the mouth of the Achelous) and the promontory Araxus in Achaia,
and extended to the Isthmus of Corinth. It consisted of two distant portions,
an outer and an inner sea, separated from one another by the narrow strait, between
the promontories Rhium and Antirrhium. The inner sea, west of these promontories,
was called originally the Crissaean gulf (ho Krissaios or Krisaios kolpos), a
name which occurs as early as in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo (Krises kolpos apeiron,
431), and was used even by Thucydides (i. 107, ii. 86). But soon after the time
of the latter historian, the Corinthian gulf became the more general designation
(Xen. Hell. iv. 2. 9; Polyb. v. 3; Liv. xxvi. 26, xxviii. 7, 8.) Still the more
ancient name never went entirely out of use. While Strabo calls the whole sea,
from the promontory of Araxus to the Isthmus of Corinth, by the general name of
the Corinthian gulf, he gives to the sea within the promontories of Rhium and
Antirrhium the specific designation of the Crissaean gulf. (Strab. l. c.) It appears
from Scylax that the latter sea was also called the Delphian gulf (ho Delphikos
kolpos). Pliny, on the contrary, confines the term Corinthiacus Sinus to the inner
sea, and gives the name of the Crissaean gulf to the bay near the town of Oeanthe,
the modern Gulf of Salona. (Plin. iv. 2. s. 3, 3. s. 4.) At the eastern extremity
of the inner sea there were two bays, separated from one another by the rocky
promontory north of the Isthmus, the more northerly being called the Alcyonian
sea (he Alkuonis thalassa), and the more southerly the bay of Lechaeum. In one
passage of Strabo (viii. p. 336) we read the sea from Antirrhium to the Isthmus
is called Alcyonis, being a portion of the Crisaean gulf; but the text is evidently
faulty, and is not in accordance with other passages of Strabo, in which the name
of Alcyonis is given to the bay at the eastern extremity of the gulf, beginning
at Creusa in Boeotia and the promontory Olmiae in the Corinthia. (Comp. Strab.
ix. pp. 393, 400.) Hence in the passage first quoted it has been proposed with
great probability to read, the sea from Antirrhium to the Isthmus is the Crissaean
gulf; but from the city Creusa it is called Alcyonis. (Groskurd, German Translation
of Strabo, vol. ii. p. 11.)
Strabo says (viii. p. 336) that the circuit of the Corinthian gulf from the Evenus
to the Araxus is 2230 stadia. Pliny (iv. 4. s. 5) makes the length 85 miles, Agathemerus
(i. 4) 720 stadia. Respecting the breadth of the strait between Rhium and Antirrhium.
The Corinthian gulf resembles a large inland lake. It is surrounded by mountains,
and the heights towards the west shut out, the view of the open sea. In beauty
of scenery it surpasses even the most picturesque lakes of Switzerland and Northern
Italy. Its coasts, broken into an infinite variety of outline by the ever-changing
mixture of bold promontory, gentle slope, and cultivated level, are crowned on
every side by lofty mountains of the most majestic forms. (Leake.) Sailing from
Corinth one sees in the distance, on the left the top of Erymanthus, rising like
a colossal pyramid, and on the right the lofty heights of Helicon and Parnassus.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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