One of the most overlooked structures at Corinth’s Roman Forum has a lot to tell us about life—and punishment—at the margins of late Roman civic life, offering us a rare and haunting picture of what it was like inside an ancient prison. Following several destructive earthquakes that shook Corinth near the end of the fourth century CE, a series of major renovations and restorations took place in the subsequent decades. Archaeological evidence suggests that a particular series of rooms in the northwestern part of the forum, known as the Northwest Shops, were part of a larger renovation program during this […]
