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- The Diolkos combined the two principles of the railway and the overland transport of ships, on a scale that remained unique in antiquity. The Diolkos saved...
- The Diolkos", Journal of ****enic Studies, Vol. 99 (1979), pp. 152–155 (152) Drijvers, J.W.: "Strabo VIII 2,1 (C335): Porthmeia and the Diolkos", Mnemosyne...
- refers to a diolkos close to the harbor of Alexandria, which may have been located at the southern tip of the island of Pharos. Another diolkos is mentioned...
- simpler and less costly overland stone ramp, named Diolkos, as a portage road. Remnants of Diolkos still exist today next to the modern canal. When the...
- diolkos de L'Isthme". Bulletin de Correspondance ****énique. 81: 526–529. Cook, R.M. (1979). "Archaic Gr**** Trade: Three Conjectures 1. The Diolkos"...
- The Diolkos", The Journal of ****enic Studies, Vol. 99 (1979), pp. 152–155 (152) Drijvers, J.W.: "Strabo VIII 2,1 (C335): Porthmeia and the Diolkos", Mnemosyne...
- The Diolkos", The Journal of ****enic Studies, Vol. 99 (1979), pp. 152–155 (152) Drijvers, J.W.: "Strabo VIII 2,1 (C335): Porthmeia and the Diolkos", Mnemosyne...
- life. Periander is also credited with inventing a transport system, the Diolkos, across the Isthmus of Corinth. Tolls from goods entering Corinth's port...
- a 6 to 8.5 km long Diolkos paved trackway transported boats across the Isthmus of Corinth in Greece from around 600 BC. The Diolkos was in use for over...
- citizens of ancient Corinth constructed the Diolkos, which some consider the world's first railway. The Diolkos was a hard poros limestone road with grooved...