Tanah Genting Korintus
Tanah Genting Korintus adalah jembatan darat sempit yang menghubungkan Semenanjung Peloponnesos dengan sisa daratan Yunani, di dekat kota Korintus. The word "isthmus" comes from the Ancient Greek word for "neck" and refers to the narrowness of the land.[1] The Isthmus was known in the ancient world as the landmark separating the Peloponnese from mainland Greece. In the first century AD the geographer Strabo[2] noted a stele on the Isthmus of Corinth, which bore two inscriptions. One towards the East, i.e. towards Megara, reading: "Here is not Peloponnesus, but Ionia" (τάδ᾽ οὐχὶ Πελοπόννησος, ἀλλ᾽ Ἰωνία) and the one towards the West, i.e. towards the Peloponnese: "Here is Peloponnesus, not Ionia" (τάδ᾽ ἐστὶ Πελοπόννησος, οὐκ Ἰωνία); Plutarch ascribed the erection of the stele to the Attic hero Theseus, on his way to Athens.[3]
Referensi
- ^ LSJ entry ισθμός
- ^ Strabo, Geography. 9.1.6.
- ^ Plutarch, Parallel Lives , Theseus Plut. Thes. 25
