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Notice the fine Corinthian capitals on the slender Greek marble columns.
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.
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.
Today only 15 are still standing, but their Corinthian capitals have a wonderful form and elegance.