How did they get the building material up to the temple?
The building material was brought up to the temple by slave labor, requiring countless hours of hard work. It was not for a library, campus, or place of education, but for a temple to a female goddess. This exhausting effort reflects the ancient world’s devotion to appeasing gods and goddesses.
Les explains that while at the site he asked the guide how the building material was moved from down below to the temple up above. The answer was slave labor—umpteen hours of hard work. It was not to build some beautiful library, campus, or place of education, but a temple to a female goddess. He notes this was all they lived for: whatever they could work and sweat and do to somehow appease their gods and goddesses. This wasn’t just Corinth; it was the whole ancient world.