John Gill Commentary Acts 18:1

"After these things he departed from Athens, and came to Corinth." — Acts 18:1 (ASV)

After these things
The Arabic version renders it, "after these words, or discourses"; after the apostle's disputation with the philosophers, and his sermon in the Areopagus, the effects of which are before related:

Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth ;
the metropolis of Achaia, or Peloponnesus. The city was formerly called Ephyra, from Ephyra ^F16 , the daughter of Oceanus, and had its name of Corinth from Corinthus, the son of Maratho, who repaired it when destroyed; or, as others say, from Corinthus the son of Pelops, others of Orestes, and others of Jupiter: though more probably it was so called from the multitudes of whores in this place, as if it was (korai enya) , "corai entha, here are girls, or whores"; for in the temple of Venus there were no less than a thousand whores provided, to be prostituted to all comers thither; (See Gill on 2 Corinthians 12:21). It was situated between two great seas, the Aegean and Ionean; hence ^F17 Horace calls it Bimaris: it had a very strong tower, built on a high mount, called Acrocorinthus, from which these two seas might be seen, and where was the fountain Pirene, sacred to the Muses: the city was about sixty furlongs, or seven miles and a half, from the shore ^F18 :

it was a city that abounded in riches and luxury. Florus

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FOOTNOTES:

• F16: Vellei Patercull Hist. Rom. l. 1. Pausanias, Corinthiaca, sive l. 2. p. 85.
• F17: Carmin. l. 1. Ode 7.
• F18: Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 4. c. 4.