Diolkos for 1,500 years

Diolkos for 1,500 years (2009)

TMDb

4.0

15/05/2009 • 0h 22m
original-title

Δίολκος για 1.500 χρόνια

status

Released

production-companies

Technical Chamber of Greece

original-language

Greek

budget

-

revenue

-

The story takes place near the famous Ancient Corinth (around the mid-4th century BCE), referring to its two harbours (named Lechaion and Kenchreae). Several ships, avoiding the dangerous travel around the whole of Peloponnese, were transferred from the Corinth Golf to the Golf of Saronikos, on top of an eight-wheel vehicle dragged along a stone-paved road (the “Diolkos”), almost parallel to the actual Corinth-Canal. The film describes several technical details of the whole operation, as well as various events such as the visits of the sailors to an ancient Greek Temple and to a tavern, where a hypothetically available Hydraulis (water organ) was played, or to a public fountain encountered along the Diolkos.

production-countries

Greece

spoken-languages

Greek

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