Diolkos for 1500 years

The story takes place near the famous Ancient Corinth around the mid4th century BCE referring to its two harbours named Lechaion and Kenchreae Several ships avoiding the dangerous travel around the whole of Peloponnese were transferred from the Corinth Golf to the Golf of Saronikos on top of an eightwheel vehicle dragged along a stonepaved road the Diolkos almost parallel to the actual CorinthCanal The film describes several technical details of the whole operation as well as various events such as the visits of the sailors to an ancient Greek Temple and to a tavern where a hypothetically available Hydraulis water organ was played or to a public fountain encountered along the Diolkos