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Diolkos for 1,500 years (2009)

Diolkos for 1,500 years (2009)

Animation History Documentary
Release Date: 2009, May 15
Directors: Theodosis Tasios
Countries: Greece
Production: Technical Chamber of Greece
Cast: Theodosis Tasios

Overview:

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.