Isthmus and Diolkos
Corinth Canal Greece. Roman emperors tried to accomplish this, but it was impossible until the invention of dynamite. Instead, the Romans and Greeks built the Diolkos across the isthmus. The Diollkos was a wide paved road with deep grooves for moving shiploads of goods from the Aegean Sea at Cenchrae four miles to the Ionian Sea on the west side of the Isthmus. They could even haul an entire ship if it wasn’t too big, saving a dangerous sailing around the Southern tip of the Peloponnese.
