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Acrocorinth ((ギリシア語:Ακροκόρινθος)), "Upper Corinth", the acropolis of ancient Corinth, is a monolithic rock overseeing the ancient city of Corinth, Greece. "It is the most impressive of the ''acropoleis'' of mainland Greece," in the estimation of George Forrest.〔Forrest, in John Boardman, Jasper Griffin and Oswyn Murray, ''Greece and the Hellenistic World'' (Oxford History of the Classical World) 1988, vol. I p. 31.〕 Acrocorinth was continuously occupied from archaic times to the early 19th century. The city's archaic acropolis, already an easily defensible position due to its geomorphology, was further heavily fortified during the Byzantine Empire as it became the seat of the'' strategos'' of the ''thema'' of Hellas and later of the Peloponnese. It was defended against the Crusaders for three years by Leo Sgouros. Afterwards it became a fortress of the Frankish Principality of Achaea, the Venetians and the Ottoman Turks. With its secure water supply, Acrocorinth's fortress was used as the last line of defense in southern Greece because it commanded the Isthmus of Corinth, repelling foes from entry into the Peloponnese peninsula. Three circuit walls formed the man-made defense of the hill. The highest peak on the site was home to a temple to Aphrodite which was converted to a church, and then became a mosque. The American School's Corinth Excavations began excavations on it in 1929. Currently, Acrocorinth is one of the most important medieval castle sites of Greece. In a Corinthian myth related in the 2nd century CE to Pausanias, Briareus, one of the Hecatonchires, was the arbitrator in a dispute between Poseidon and Helios, between the sea and the sun: his verdict was that the Isthmus of Corinth belonged to Poseidon and the acropolis of Corinth (Acrocorinth) to Helios.〔Pausanias. ''Description of Greece'', 2.1.6.〕〔Pausanias. ''Description of Greece'', 2.4.7.〕 The Upper Pirene spring is located within the encircling walls. "The spring, which is behind the temple, they say was the gift of Asopus to Sisyphus. The latter knew, so runs the legend, that Zeus had ravished Aegina, the daughter of Asopus, but refused to give information to the seeker before he had a spring given him on the Acrocorinthus."〔Pausanias. ''Description of Greece'', 2.5.1.〕 ==Gallery== File:Acrocorinth map (EN).jpg|Map of Acrocorinth File:Carl Anton Joseph Rottmann - Corinth with Akrocorinth - WGA20150.jpg|"Corinth with Acrocorinth" by Carl Anton Joseph Rottmann, 1847 File:Corinth, Acrocorinth.jpg|View of Acrocorinth File:Apollon Tempel im antiken Korinth.jpg|Temple of Apollo with Acrocorinth in the background 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Acrocorinth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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