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It became Athens’ enemy when it sided with the Spartans during the devastating wars of the fourth century b.c. but the city recovered quickly from the defeat and had a second period of influence that began during the third century b.c. when Philip of Macedonia made it the capital of the Corinthian League.
Its 14 Corinthian columns rise skyward from a platform that was in use as recently as the 19th century as a slaughterhouse.
This east-coast Corinthian settlement, founded in 734 b.c. , was the most powerful of Magna Graecia’s overseas colonies and, under Dionysius (405–367 b.c. ), a direct rival to Athens.
Notice the fine Corinthian capitals on the slender Greek marble columns.
Its façade of yellow sandstone is richly carved with a fine bell tower, and mock Corinthian columns dignifying each of the twin entranceways.