How did they get the building material up to the temple to the female goddess in Corinth?
The building material was hauled up by slave labor. It required countless hours of hard work, not for a library, campus, or place of education, but for a temple to a female goddess. Such exhausting labor was part of appeasing gods and goddesses throughout the ancient world, including Corinth.
Les explains that the guide asked how the building material was moved from down below to up above. The answer was slave labor—umpteen hours of hard work. It was not to build a beautiful library, campus, or place of education, but a temple to a female goddess. That was all they lived for: working and sweating to somehow appease their gods and goddesses. This wasn’t just Corinth; it was the whole ancient world. Along with worship of these goddesses came gross immorality, part of everyday experience from the common people all the way to the top.