Lechaion placed on the Corinthian Gulf was the main port of Corinthos connected to the city with a set of long walls of about 3 km. It was orriginally arranged in Archaic times (seventh-sixth century BC). The port of Lechaion iwas mentioned by Plutarch in his testimony on the symposium for the Seven Sages.
tSee:
- Socrates Koursoumis - http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/3/eh351.jsp?obj_id=20986
- David Gilman Romano, Roman Surveyors in Corinth, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 150, No. 1 (Mar., 2006), pp.67, 68
- Archaeologists connect ancient Corinth's inner and outer harbours, in: Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen - http://humanities.ku.dk/news/2016/archaeologists-connect-ancient-corinths-inner-and-outer-harbours/
