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Excerpt from On the Knees of the Gods
Within its forty miles of walls, Corinth lay like a giant, stretching its limbs between the lofty Citadel, Acro-Corin-thus, and the sea. Its gardens and temples, its statues and colonnades, and its brown tiled roofs rolled on like a river whose flow was arrested by the uplifted mass of tower-studded defences. The roar of the living million or more rose up from the crowded city. Along the amber sands the Crissian sea curled its peacock blue waters. Red, white, and purple sails sent long trails of colour across the liquid surface, while about the docks of the war triremes, the reflections were black. For the trade of all the known world came to anchor at either one of Corinth's two ports.
Upward from the plain, mighty Acro-Corinthus sprang. Like a victor carrying flowery wreaths to perilous heights, the mountain's jagged rock surface showed, here and there, the bloom of verdure. At certain altitudes the rocks receeded, forming natural terraces. On one such, Manes, the famous chorus-master, had built him a house.
Such narrow ledges of space were cheap. A chorus in training could here be put through their daily drill, and slaves and masters lodged, at half the price asked within luxurious and costly Corinthian streets.
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