“…The option of transporting goods between the harbours of Lechaeum and Cenchrea (and often through Corinth) was increasingly preferred to the shipping of goods around the danger ous and treacherous Peloponnesian coastline (Staff 2003:1). In 27 BC, at the start of the reign of Emperor Augustus, Corinth was established once more as the capital of the Roman province Achaia and the seat of the Roman government (Botha & Van Rensburg 2002:52 66, Myers 1987. The re introduction of the Isthmian Games between 7 BC and 3 AD attests to the status of Corinth as a leading city.…”