Corinth, the great commercial city of the Isthmus, destroyed by L. Mummius in 146 BC and re-founded as a Roman colony by Caesar in 44 BC. Cicero invokes its destruction as the chronological boundary of the great age of Greek art (Verr. 2.1.55; De lege agr. 1.5) and Corinthian bronze as the type of high-end Roman acquisition (Pro Rosc. Am. 133).