The Destruction of Corinth (146 BCE)

146 BCE · Korint, Yunanistan · military

Lucius Mummius razed Corinth to the ground; he massacred its inhabitants or sold them into slavery and put the city to the torch.

Greece became the Roman province of Achaea. The same year Carthage was destroyed (the same year, on a different front). | The symbolic end of Greek independence; the paradox of Roman cultural patronage (Rome adopted with boundless admiration the very culture it had annihilated).

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What was The Destruction of Corinth (146 BCE)?
Lucius Mummius razed Corinth to the ground; he massacred its inhabitants or sold them into slavery and put the city to the torch.
When did The Destruction of Corinth (146 BCE) happen?
146 BCE
Where did The Destruction of Corinth (146 BCE) take place?
Korint, Yunanistan