Schoinous
Schoinous — Schoinous (Korinthia), Pleiades 570656
SCHOINOUS (Kalamaki) Corinthia, Greece.
The diolkos, a paved roadway for transporting ships and cargo across the Isthmus of Corinth, terminated at Schoinous on the Saronic Gulf (Strab. 8.6.4, 22; 9.1.2; Pompon. 2.48; Ptol. 3.16.13; Plin. HN 4.7). According to Schol. on Pindar Isthm. Argum., the body of Melikertes, who was worshiped as the god Palaimon at the Isthmian Sanctuary, was carried here by a dolphin.
BIBLIOGRAPHYIG IV271, lines 23-24. H. N. Fowler & R. Stillwell, Corinth I, i: Introduction. Topography. Architecture (1932) 49; J. R. Wiseman, The Land of the Ancient Corinthians (forthcoming).
J. R. WISEMAN