Photo: Chris Oxford (CC BY-SA 3.0)
A self-guided audio walking tour of Ancient Corinth, through the fenced archaeological site and out to the theatre, the Odeion and the Asklepieion, which are seen from the road or the fence. It starts at the museum the American School of Classical Studies built in 1931 and 1932 for the finds of its excavations, begun in 1896. Corinth sat on the Isthmus between two seas; in 146 BC the Roman general Mummius sacked it, and in 44 BC Julius Caesar refounded it as a Roman colony, where the Apostle Paul later lived. The walk goes round the Roman Forum: Temple E above it, the medieval Frankish Quarter, the twelve West Shops, the Bema, where the Acts of the Apostles records Paul being brought before the proconsul Gallio, the South Stoa and the Julian Basilica. Then come the Peirene Fountain, the Propylaea, the Lechaion Road to the harbour, the Peribolos of Apollo, the seven standing columns of the Archaic Temple of Apollo, built around 560 to 540 BC, and the Fountain of Glauke and its myth. Outside the site it passes the North Market, the roofed Odeion, the theatre, the paving Erastus laid at his own expense, the healing sanctuary of Asklepios beside the Lerna fountain, the Fountain of the Lamps, where over 4,000 lamps were found, and the Baths of Aphrodite. The fortress of Acrocorinth is a separate visit, and Ancient Corinth is a long drive from any cruise port, so for cruise passengers the ship's own excursion is the safer choice.
21 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
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Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap · 34 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 23 cross-referenced entries (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth, Temple E, Frankish Quarter, West Shops, Roman Forum, Bema, South Stoa.
Julian Basilica, Peirene Fountain, Propylaea, Lechaion Road, Peribolos of Apollo, Archaic Temple of Apollo, Fountain of Glauke, North Market.
Roman Odeion, Theatre of Corinth, Erastus Inscription, Asklepieion and Lerna, Fountain of the Lamps, Baths of Aphrodite.
The raised platform in the middle of the forum from which Roman officials spoke and judged, identified with the judgment seat where Paul stood before Gallio.
The stoa more than 160 metres long that closes the whole south side of the agora, built of local tufa and attributed to Philip II or Demetrius Poliorcetes.
The spring engineered with tunnels, chambers and later a monumental fountain court to collect and store water from under the valley.
The main north-south street of the Roman colony, linking the forum with the Gulf of Corinth and the harbour of Lechaion.
Seven monolithic limestone columns on their rocky rise, from a temple built around 560 to 540 BC over an earlier one.
The Latin inscription in the paving east of the theatre recording that Erastus laid it at his own expense for his aedileship.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 21 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each site has its own narration. 21 narration points.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm and knowledgeable, not a textbook reading.
Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
See all narration points on the map. Tap any point to hear it early or replay it later.
Every narrated point in Ancient Corinth — the Temple, the Forum and the Fountains, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
21 narration points, including South Stoa, Archaic Temple of Apollo, Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth, Temple E and Frankish Quarter. That is about 33 minutes of narration in all, and you walk between the stops at your own pace.
Yes. It plays in your phone’s browser as you walk: no guide, no group, no app to install and no fixed start time.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
If you opened this link from inside Instagram, Facebook or Gmail, you are in that app’s built-in browser. It cannot add anything to your home screen, and a guide downloaded there is thrown away when the app closes. Open the link in Safari or Chrome first.
Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~1–2 hours total, but you walk at your own pace. 21 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.