Toward the end of the seventh century B.C.E., when plans to build a canal failed, Periander, the ruler of Corinth, built an ingenious means for shipping across the isthmus.
Ap septītā gadsimta beigām pirms mūsu ēras Korintas valdnieks Periandrs bija iecerējis izrakt zemesšaurumā kanālu *, bet šo plānu neizdevās īstenot.