In the same year as the destruction of Carthage, Rome ended the Achaean War by storming Corinth, the league's leading city. The later sources record that Mummius had the male citizens killed and the women, children and freed slaves sold into slavery, that the city's art and treasure were shipped to Italy, and that the site was left desolate; Greece was brought under Roman supervision. Archaeological work has complicated that account: the destruction of buildings appears to have been partial and selective, occupation continued among the ruins, and an inscription of 111 BCE shows Roman officials measuring and selling Corinthian public land in the interval. Julius Caesar refounded Corinth as a Roman colony in 44 BCE, laying out the confiscated territory in a centuriated grid for settlers, and the city became the administrative capital of Roman Greece. No population figures survive for either the destruction or the refoundation.
Lucius Mummius sacked Corinth at the end of the Achaean War, killed its male citizens, sold the women and children into slavery and confiscated its territory for the Roman state
No count survives. Modern estimates rest on walled area multiplied by assumed density and on the size of the citizen body implied by Corinth's military contributions; they range from about 40,000 to 90,000 for the city in its classical prime, and Corinth in 146 BCE was smaller than at its fifth-century peak. Beloch's calculations and the more recent 'shotgun' area estimates of Hansen differ by a factor of two, so 50,000 should be read as an order of magnitude.
No figures exist. Pausanias states that the male citizens were killed but gives no number, and no archaeological evidence of mass burial or general destruction has been identified.
Pausanias and later Roman authors record the killing of Corinth's male citizens and the sacking of the city; the extent of physical destruction is qualified by the excavation record.
Greece, Italy