The words "Laus Iulia" were added to this city's formal name after it was populated with disaffected Roman citizens under a plan of Julius Caesar.
The words "Laus Iulia" were added to this city's formal name after it was populated with disaffected Roman citizens under a plan of Julius Caesar. Its quasi-mythical Bacchiad clan was deposed by the tyrant Cypselus, who fathered Periander. In 435 BC, it quarrelled with its colony Corcyra over the city of Epidamnus. This city, which lay at the end of a road to its harbor of Lechaeum, built a paved pathway called the diolkos, which let its navy tug ships overland. Lucius Mummius sacked and destroyed this city with his Roman army after defeating the Achaean League. Macedon's emperor Phillip II founded the namesake league of, for 10 points, what city on an isthmus between the Peloponnesus and mainland Greece?
The words "Laus Iulia" were added to this city's formal name after it was populated with disaffected Roman citizens under a plan of Julius Caesar.
Corinth