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The ancient city was developed at the base of the citadel of the Acrocorinthus ; a Gibraltar like eminence rising 1886 feet above sea level. (Copy pasted from https://www.britannica.com/place/Corinth-Greece). Their patron god is poseidon, the god of w

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1Athens is the capital and largest city in Greece, With a population of about 3,5 millions people and long history, Athens stretches on a large peninsula that is protected by mountains from all sides of the horizon: Mt Egaleo to the west, Mt Parnes to the north, Mt Pentelikon to the north east and Mt Hymettus to the east. The peninsula of Attica is located in the southern side of Greece and it is surrounded by the Aegean Sea, the Gulf of Evoikos, the Saronic Gulf and the Gulf of Corinth. The peninsula of Attica is the highest-populated region of Greece. The centre of Athens is surrounded by hills and parks, such as Lycabettus hill, Philopappou hill, the Acropolis hill and others. Also it is washed by underground rivers, such as Iridanos, Kifissos and Ilissus. Most of the time, these rivers are dry but in the winter they get filled with the rain water. Some nice parks also dot Athens, such as the National Gardens, the Antonis Tritsis Park and the Park of Veikou Hill. Athens has the typical Meditteranean climate, which means hot and dry summers and mild winters. It rarely snows (usually every 3-4 years) and some rainfalls may occur in autumn. The coasts of Attica peninsula form nice coves to swim. Most popular beaches are found on the way to Cape Sounion, such as Lagonisi, Legrena and Kalivia. However, there are also nice beaches on the north eastern side of Attica, such as Marathon and Schinias. The geography of Athens has influenced the Greek culture. Map of Athens Source: www.greeka.com

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Athens and Sparta were two rival city-states, while the latter had very well trained military and soldiers, the former boasted of a good navy. Athens and its allies, known as the Delian League, came into conflict with the Spartans and the Peloponnesian league, and in 431 BC a war broke out between the two cities - a war based on trade routes, rivalries, and tributes paid by smaller dependent states.

This conflict, the Peloponnesian War, essentially was a 28-year period of on and off civil war among Greek city-states. (A city-state was a city, such as Athens, and the surrounding country under its influence and protection; Athens and its surrounding area, known as Attica, was about the size of Rhode Island). Sparta had a clear military advantage on land, but the Athenian navy surpassed Sparta’s capabilities at sea; neither side was able to seize and maintain the upper hand. Both sides experienced major victories and crushing defeats, and the war was frequently interrupted by periods of negotiated peace. The war ended in 404 BC with the defeat of Athens and its democracy.

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3.Compared to the simple lifestyle of the Spartan people, Athenians had a very modern and open outlook. Unlike Sparta, in Athens, boys were not forced to join the army. As an Athenian, one could get a good education and could pursue several kinds of arts and sciences. Sparta people were not open to education and they only concentrated on military strength and obedience and they didn't interact much with the outside world.
Athens and Sparta differed in their ideas of getting along with the rest of the Greek empires. Sparta seemed to be content with themselves and provided their army whenever required. That is why it considered itself as the protector of the Greek. On the other hand, Athens wanted to take control of more and more land in Greece. This idea eventually led to war between the Greeks. Sparta had a powerful army and Athens knew that they could not beat them but they had the power of a naval unit which Sparta didn’t have.

What the two communities had in common was that they were both thinkers. They worshiped their gods and respected people. They loved beauty, music, literature, drama, philosophy, politics, art, and sports. It could be said that some even loved battle itself.

Where they differed was that while the Spartans had militaristic values, Athenians were democratic. The Spartans emphasized only on expanding their power and gaining control over other kingdoms while the Athenians also grew infrastructure wise in ancient times. They understood the importance of such growth and concentrated on them besides on military strength.

Athens has been continuously inhabited for at least 3,000 years, becoming the leading city of ancient Greece in the first millennium BCE; its cultural achievements during the 5th century BCE laid the foundations of western civilization. During the Middle Ages, the city experienced decline and then recovery under the Byzantine Empire, and was relatively prosperous during the Crusades, as they benefitted from Italian trade. After a long period of decline under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, Athens reemerged in the 19th century as the capital of the independent Greek state.

Tradition relates that Sparta was founded by its first king, Lacedaemon, son of Zeus and Taygete, who named the city after his wife, the daughter of Eurotas, around 1000 BCE. Some eighty years after the Trojan War, according to the traditional chronology, Dorian migration from the north took place and eventually led to the rise of classical Sparta — famous as a martial power, foe of the Persian Empire, and eventual conqueror of Athens. After conquering many kingdoms and warring with many communities, Sparta spread to a major empire around 400 BCE. This was also the time of Athens' fall, which proclaimed Sparta superior in the constant war of the two empires. In medieval times, the city of Sparta was destroyed by many invasions. Modern day Sparta, which is known as Sparti in Greece, was rebuilt around 1834.

Athens has been continuously inhabited for at least 3,000 years, becoming the leading city of ancient Greece in the first millennium BCE; its cultural achievements during the 5th century BCE laid the foundations of western civilization. During the Middle Ages, the city experienced decline and then recovery under the Byzantine Empire, and was relatively prosperous during the Crusades, as they benefitted from Italian trade. After a long period of decline under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, Athens reemerged in the 19th century as the capital of the independent Greek state.

Tradition relates that Sparta was founded by its first king, Lacedaemon, son of Zeus and Taygete, who named the city after his wife, the daughter of Eurotas, around 1000 BCE. Some eighty years after the Trojan War, according to the traditional chronology, Dorian migration from the north took place and eventually led to the rise of classical Sparta — famous as a martial power, foe of the Persian Empire, and eventual conqueror of Athens. After conquering many kingdoms and warring with many communities, Sparta spread to a major empire around 400 BCE. This was also the time of Athens' fall, which proclaimed Sparta superior in the constant war of the two empires. In medieval times, the city of Sparta was destroyed by many invasions. Modern day Sparta, which is known as Sparti in Greece, was rebuilt around 1834.

Athens has been continuously inhabited for at least 3,000 years, becoming the leading city of ancient Greece in the first millennium BCE; its cultural achievements during the 5th century BCE laid the foundations of western civilization. During the Middle Ages, the city experienced decline and then recovery under the Byzantine Empire, and was relatively prosperous during the Crusades, as they benefitted from Italian trade. After a long period of decline under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, Athens reemerged in the 19th century as the capital of the independent Greek state.

Tradition relates that Sparta was founded by its first king, Lacedaemon, son of Zeus and Taygete, who named the city after his wife, the daughter of Eurotas, around 1000 BCE. Some eighty years after the Trojan War, according to the traditional chronology, Dorian migration from the north took place and eventually led to the rise of classical Sparta — famous as a martial power, foe of the Persian Empire, and eventual conqueror of Athens. After conquering many kingdoms and warring with many communities, Sparta spread to a major empire around 400 BCE. This was also the time of Athens' fall, which proclaimed Sparta superior in the constant war of the two empires. In medieval times, the city of Sparta was destroyed by many invasions. Modern day Sparta, which is known as Sparti in Greece, was rebuilt around 1834.

Athens has been continuously inhabited for at least 3,000 years, becoming the leading city of ancient Greece in the first millennium BCE; its cultural achievements during the 5th century BCE laid the foundations of western civilization. During the Middle Ages, the city experienced decline and then recovery under the Byzantine Empire, and was relatively prosperous during the Crusades, as they benefitted from Italian trade. After a long period of decline under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, Athens reemerged in the 19th century as the capital of the independent Greek state.

Tradition relates that Sparta was founded by its first king, Lacedaemon, son of Zeus and Taygete, who named the city after his wife, the daughter of Eurotas, around 1000 BCE. Some eighty years after the Trojan War, according to the traditional chronology, Dorian migration from the north took place and eventually led to the rise of classical Sparta — famous as a martial power, foe of the Persian Empire, and eventual conqueror of Athens. After conquering many kingdoms and warring with many communities, Sparta spread to a major empire around 400 BCE. This was also the time of Athens' fall, which proclaimed Sparta superior in the constant war of the two empires. In medieval times, the city of Sparta was destroyed by many invasions. Modern day Sparta, which is known as Sparti in Greece, was rebuilt around 1834.

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Thebes was the largest city in Boeotia, and was situated in a plateau. Due to their geography, they were very resourceful. Thebes' patron god was Dionysus, the god of wine. Because of this, the citizens of Thebes were encouraged to make a mass production of grapevines which was used to make wine, obviously. Their rivals were Athens and Sparta. From an aristocratic government, they became democratic.

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1-Thebes was the city of Amun. Ancient Thebes was a home to some of the greatest monuments of ancient world and it is to honor the living, dead and divine.

2-The patron god of Thebes was Dionysus, also called Bacchus and Iacchos. He is the "God of wine" because of this the people made a production of wine.                                                                                            3-Thebes was a powerful and influential city-state of Ancient Greece. History tells us that Thebes was originally of Greek origin and was there before the dark ages. Their constant rivals are Athens and Sparta. The Thebes sided up with Persians and  defeated the spartans at Thermopylae. The Greeks defeated the Persians, they had punished Thebes by depriving it of the presidency of the Boeotian league. Thebes re-emerged in Peloponnesian War and sided with Spartans against Athens and won. 4- They created a kingdom and needed to run it with organization so that they could manage trade and many other things.

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The geography of Athens, was actually really lucky to have geographic barriers.Like the mountains of Parthina, Aegoleo and Hymettus. Then the Saronic Gulf to the south. Their patron god was Athena, Goddess of wisdom. Their goddess' titles affected their jobs specialization by making most of them Lawyers, Scibes , Mathematitians , Architects , ETC. Athen's rival were the Spartans. The war started because they wanted to rule in trade. So, they started the Pellopenesian War, which lasted for 30 years, Until they signed a peace treaty which ended the war. Their form of government was democratic, which had their rulers and the Courts. At this time, it was a time of peace and this lead to advancement in technology, mathematics and science.

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Macedonia was located north of  Kosova and Serbia, east of Bulgaria, south of Greece and  west of Albania. It is located of  Aegean Sea and Aliakmon River, west of Lake Prespa and Ohrid. Macedonia is very mountainous, with The highest elevation is at Mount Korab (9,030 feet, or 2,752 metres) on the Albanian border. Because of it's location and geography, Macedonia had easy access to communication routes: in particular, the great north-south route from the Danube River to the Aegean formed by the valleys of the Morava and Vardar rivers and the ancient east-west trade routes connecting the Black Sea and Istanbul with the Adriatic Sea.
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Macedonia worshipped the 12 olympic gods, Pluto, Persephone, Dionysos, Pan, Hestia, Heracles, Asklepios, Okeanos, Amphitrite, the Nereids, Thetys, Orpheus, the Diocouroi, Amphilochos, the Nymphs, the Graces, the Fates, Hygieia, Lethe, Nemesis and Eros. They also gave them the familiar Greek epithets, such as Agoraios, Basileus, Olympios, Hypsistos of Zeus, Basileia of Hera, Soter of Apollo, Hagemona and Soteira of Artemis, Boulaia of Hestia, etc. They devoted themselves to Zeus most especially. Because of this, the king commanded several rituals. Among these two of the most important were: (a) the army purification performed each at the festival of the Xandica in the early spring, at the beginning of the campaigning season, though this purification could be performed at other times as well; and (b) and a ceremony of the Dead post-combat Macedonians.

The Macedonian-Greek conflict is very interesting. the books about Macedonia  were written to simply serve to justify the aspirations, propaganda, and the partition of Macedonia of 1913, by the neighboring countries such as Greece. These sources are false. The Greek pages about Macedonia rely strictly on their very own Greek propaganda sources, which naturally makes them biased. In order to find the real truth about Macedonia, one has to rely on the independent and neutral sources when looking into history. This page is such case, which browses historical independent and neutral facts, to show the truth about Macedonia against the century-old Greek propaganda.

Macedonia seceded from Yugoslavia and became a sovereign state by a popular referendum held in September 1991 when the majority of voters chose independence. Greece immediately demanded from the international community not to recognise the country under its name Macedonia. The Macedonian government is called the Parliamentary republic.

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The geographical advantage is in it's position rather than it's size.
It's location is a junction of many communication routes, including the Danube river, connecting Istanbul and the Black Sea with the Adriatic sea.
Classical Greek objects and customs were appropriated selectively and used in peculiarly Macedonian ways, this was shaped by their patron god/s because they worshiped not only the same gods, but non-Greek gods as well.

Macedonia's rival was Roman Empire, the root of this rivalry was when Philip V of Macedon allied himself with Hannibal. Fearing reinforcements from Hannibal, the Roman Legions, aided by their allies, dispatched skirmishes against Macedonia.

Macedonian government system was a monarchy, the king of Macedon (example:Philip V), would lead the kingdom from it's capital, Pella. The King was also aided by a "Royal Secretary", whose work was of primary importance, and by the Council. Royal successors had to be adult, fit for leadership, males. Important decision making was overseen by the King and the Council(Synedrion).

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The Greek peninsula has two distinctive geographic features that influenced the development of Greek society. First, Greece has easy access to water. The land contains countless scattered islands, deep harbors, and a network of small rivers. This easy access to water meant that the Greek people might naturally become explorers and traders.

Second, Greece's mountainous terrain led to the development of the polis (city-state), beginning about 750 B.C.E. The high mountains made it very difficult for people to travel or communicate. Therefore, each polis developed independently and, often, very differently from one another. Eventually, the polis became the structure by which people organized themselves. Athens and Sparta are two good examples of city-states that contrasted greatly with each other.

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Ares, God of War. This God closely resembles Sparta's fighting nature. Sparta is famous for its advances in military strategy and strong military might, closely matching its patron God. Another major event that the Gods had a serious impact on is the Trojan War. The war supposedly started when Aphrodite, Goddess of beauty, promised Paris, the prince of Troy, Helen's hand. Helen was already married to Menelaus, King of Sparta. After Paris took Helen, the siege of Troy started. Menelaus and the rest of the Greeks fought against Troy. Athena, Hera and Poseidon frequently helped the Greeks, while Aphrodite and Ares defended the city of Troy. The Greeks had a hard time trying to penetrate Troy because of the city walls. After a bloody nine years, the Greeks had the idea to pull the wooden horse trick that is so famous. The Greeks' trick was to build a giant wooden horse that they secretly hollowed out, and left it as a gift of surrender. Really, they had loaded their soldiers into the horse. When the Trojans took it into their city, the Greeks jumped out and claimed their victory. Obviously, the Greek Gods influenced the Greek people, their culture, and history in many ways

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In ancient Greece, the great rival of Athens was Sparta. The city-state and its surrounding territory were located on the Peloponnesus, a peninsula southwest of Athens. Sparta (also called Lacedaemon) was the capital of the district of Laconia.

From the vigorous iron-hearted warriors of this city-state has come the adjective Spartan. Sparta prided itself not on art, learning, or splendid buildings, but on its valiant men who "served their city in the place of walls of bricks." Athens, with its beautiful temples and statues, its poetry and philosophy, dominated the intellectual life of the world. In the end, however, Sparta wrested temporary political supremacy from its cultured opponent.

The Spartan government was founded on the principle that the life of every individual, from the moment of birth, belonged absolutely to the state. The elders of the city-state inspected the newborn infants and ordered the weak and unhealthy ones to be carried to a nearby chasm and left to die. By this practice Sparta hoped to ensure that only those who were physically fit would survive.

The children who were allowed to live were brought up under a severe discipline. At the age of 7, boys were removed from their parents' control and organized into small bands. The strongest and most courageous youths were made captains. The boys slept in dormitories on hard beds of rushes. They ate black broth and other coarse food. They wore the simplest and scantiest clothing. Unlike the boys of Athens, they spent little time learning music and literature. Instead they were drilled each day in gymnastics and military exercises. They were taught that retreat or surrender in battle was disgraceful. They learned to endure pain and hardship without complaint and to obey orders absolutely and without question.

They were allowed to feel the pinch of hunger and were encouraged to supplement their fare by pilfering food for themselves. This was not done to cultivate dishonesty but to develop shrewdness and enterprise. If they were caught, they were whipped for their awkwardness. It is said that a Spartan boy, who had stolen a young fox for his dinner, allowed the animal he had hidden under his cloak to gnaw out his vitals rather than betray his theft by crying out. Girls were educated in classes under a similar system, but with less rigor.

Discipline grew even more rigorous when the boys reached manhood. All male Spartan citizens between the ages of 20 and 60 served in the army and, though allowed to marry, they had to belong to a men's dining club and eat and sleep in the public barracks. They were forbidden to possess gold and silver, and their money consisted only of iron bars. War songs were their only music, and their literary education was slight. No luxury was allowed, even in the use of words. They spoke shortly and to the point--in the manner that has come to be called laconic, from Laconia, the district of which Sparta was a part.

There were three classes of inhabitants in Laconia. Spartan citizens, who lived in the city itself and who alone had a voice in the government, devoted their entire time to military training. The peroikoi, or "dwellers-round," who lived in the surrounding villages, were free but had no political rights. They were tradesmen and mechanics--occupations that were forbidden to the Spartans.

The Helots were serfs, little better than slaves, bound to the farms and forced to cultivate the soil for the citizens who owned the land. These Helots, whose marriages and children were not so strictly controlled by the state, were the most numerous class and bitterly hated their masters. Only the amazing organization and fighting powers of the Spartan state kept them under control.

Another strange feature of Sparta was its government, which was headed by two kings who ruled jointly. They served as high priests and as leaders in war. Each king acted as a check on the other. There was a sort of cabinet composed of five ephors, or overseers, who exercised a general guardianship over law and custom and in later times came to have greater power. The legislative power was vested in the assembly of Spartan citizens and in a senate, or council, of 30 elders consisting of the two kings and 28 other men chosen from the citizens who had passed the age of 60.

Sparta at War

The Spartan armies, though usually quite small, were well-disciplined and all but irresistible in combat. Each citizen soldier was inspired by the resolve to win or die. The Spartan mother, when she gave her son his shield, would say: "Bring back this shield yourself or be brought back upon it," referring to the manner in which the dead were carried on their shields from the battlefield. Among Sparta's most heroic achievements was the stand taken by its fighting men at the battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, during the Persian Wars

The Spartan constitution is said to have been founded by Lycurgus in the 9th century BC. Under the rigid discipline of its laws, Sparta extended its conquests over the neighboring states until it gained control of most of the Peloponnesus.

Sparta's prowess naturally brought rivalry with Athens, the leader of the northern states and for a time of all Greece. This rivalry culminated in the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), which resulted in Athens' ruin and Sparta's supremacy (see Peloponnesian War). But the tyranny of the Spartans aroused hatred and rebellion among those who had been conquered, and the jealous limitations on citizenship gradually reduced the number of specially trained warriors until only a few hundred remained. After about 30 years of Spartan domination, the Thebans under Epaminondas defeated Sparta in 371 BC and ended its power.

The long war with Athens had weakened many of the city-states. Their weakness and disunity left them prey to a greater power that was emerging in the north--Macedonia and its King Philip II. He came to the throne in 359 BC, and within a year he was already waging a war of expansion. By 339 he had achieved control of Greece, including Sparta. In the 2nd century BC Sparta was absorbed by Rome's legions.

The ancient city of Sparta was destroyed by Visigoths in AD 396. The modern town, called New Sparta locally, was built in 1834 after the War of Greek Independence. It occupies part of the ancient site near the Eurotas River, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) from the Gulf of Messenia. Population (1981 census), metropolitan area, 14,388.

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The Spartan political system was unusual in that it had two hereditary kings from two separate families. These monarchs were particularly powerful when one of them led the army on campaign. The kings were also priests of Zeus and they sat on the council of elders known as the gerousia. This body consisted of 28 over-60 years of age males who held the position for life. The gerousia led the citizen assembly, probably proposing issues on which to vote and it was also the highest court in Sparta. The assembly (Ekklēsia) met once a month and was open to all citizens who voted by the simple method of shouting. There was also an executive committee of five ephors (ephoroi) chosen by lot from the citizen body, able only to serve for a maximum of one year and who were ineligible for future office. Two of the ephors also accompanied one of the kings when on campaign. Just how these different political elements interacted is not known for certain but clearly a degree of consensus was necessary for the state apparatus to function. It may also explain Sparta’s reputation as being a conservative state slow to make decisions in foreign policy.

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Sparta is found in the southern part of the Peloponnesian peninsula, in the area called Leconia. The area is one of the most fertile in Greece. Sparta is surrounded in three sides by rugged mountains Mt. Taygetus, Parnon ranges and the Arcadians mountains. The mountains help the city-states shape its society because the mountains provide geographical barriers to Sparta and make enemy invaders hard to attack Sparta. This also made isolated Sparta with the rest of Grece. The rugged sea coast also made the sea approach less attractive. The Eusotas river was very important in the time of the Sparta because four of Sparta’s villages were located near the Eusotas river while the fifth village was located five kilometers south which is much closer to the sea. The river also gives the Spartans a source of water. The river would also help ensure that the plains remain fertile and supply the Spartans with food. The location of Sparta also made them rich in resources such as Iron, Lead, corps such as barley and wheat, Fruit orchard such as figs, olives and grapes, plains good for gazing sheep and goats, pigs and hens, game animals, bees for honey and wax, timber and stones from the mountains.

Sparta has two gods these two were Ares and Artemis. Ares was the god of war and Artemis was the goddess of the hunt. This affected their culture and job specialization because the Spartans became a warrior society much like Ares. The Spartans also hunts for land like how they conquered the land of the mycenaeans which is much like Artermis. These two gods had a big impact to the Spartans because both of these gods reflects on Sparta's fighting and war attitude. Sparta also matches to their gods in terms of their advancements in their military strategies, military might and their advanced weaponry.

One of the major rival of Sparta is Athens the war that they had was called the Peloponnesean war. The roots of their rivalry was because in the 5th century BCE Sparta and Athens were the two major powers in Greece and it was possible  that their spheres of influence would overlap and cause conflict. Sparta seems to have been particularly affected at the quick growing power of Athens, able to build a bigger fleet of ships because of the tributes from its allies and dependants. Sparta was also suspicious of the Athenians' project to rebuild their Long Wall fortifications which protected their harbour of Piraeus. On the other hand, Sparta was also concerned that inaction would push the other major Greek power, Corinth, to side with Athens.

Sparta’s government is unique compared to the others because Sparta was ruled by two kings. These kings would lead the army in times of war. In addition to the kings, there were five ephors (magistrates) that were elected from aristocratic families. Sparta also had a council that created laws. The council was made up of the two kings and twenty-eight elders. The elders had to be sixty years old or older to qualify for the position. These leaders took the laws to an assembly made up of citizens for an up–or-down vote without discussion or alterations. The only way to become a citizen of Sparta was to be a descendent of the original Doric invaders who settled the city. This requirement caused the number of citizens usually to not exceed six or seven thousand at any time. Non-citizens outnumbered citizens, but they were kept in check by the strong military that the Spartan government had created.

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The Ancient City of Corinth was a port city connecting the Adriatic Sea and Aegean Sea. With these seas nearby they became good maritime sailors and fishermen.
Their patron God was Poseidon, God of the ocean, so they were good horsemen, traders, naval soldiers, navigators of the sea and maritime fishermen.
Their rival city was Argos. Poseidon and Hera fought for Argos but Poseidon lost. As a result, he had to look for new land and tried to fight Helios for the main island of Corinth but lost so he was left with a smaller piece of Corinth.

Corinth's government switched from a tyranny to a monarchy to a oligarchy. Corinth had great leader so they became one of the best city-states. The city also housed many heroes like bellerophon and theseus this led to good press among the different cities.