The Portage

In early winter, 102 BCE, the Roman proconsul Marcus Antonius portaged a fleet of ships over the Corinthian Isthmus and sailed to battle Cilician pirates. The portage is remarkable, both as the first recorded transfer of vessels over the Isthmus in a century, and as one of the few known events in th...

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1. Verfasser:	Pettegrew, David
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Sprache:	eng
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Zusammenfassung:	In early winter, 102 BCE, the Roman proconsul Marcus Antonius portaged a fleet of ships over the Corinthian Isthmus and sailed to battle Cilician pirates. The portage is remarkable, both as the first recorded transfer of vessels over the Isthmus in a century, and as one of the few known events in the region between the destruction of the city and the foundation of a Roman colony in 44. The episode is especially intriguing, however, because the porter commemorated his accomplishment through a Latin poem inscribed on stone, which someone later altered to eradicate his fame. That the erasure of