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Modern Description: The court to the north of Peirene was identified by Pausanias as the “Peribolos of Apollo” in which was an image of the god and a painting depicting Odysseus on his return from Troy expelling his wife, Penelope’s, suitors. The painting may appropriately relate to Peirene as, according to one tradition, Peirene was Penelope’s aunt. ; The rectangular court, built in the first century A.D. measures approximately 32 m. by 23 m. and was surrounded by a marble Ionic colonnade set on a stylobate of Acrocorinth limestone. The colonnade was unpaved until it received a mosaic floor in the third century. An dedicatory inscription preserves only that part of the inscription that a member of the tribe Aemilia was the benefactor.
Trismegistos Geo: 1163

Info: Corinth Excavations

(Corinth Excavations, American School of Classical Studies, ascsa.net)

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