Nero and Jewish Prisoners
The Corinth Canal Curse
Using 6,000 Judean prisoners of war, emperor Nero attempted to construct the Corinth Canal in 67 CE. The canal is an artificial canal in Greece that connects the Gulf of Corinth in the Ionian Sea with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea.
The philosopher Apollonius of Tyana prophesied that anyone who proposed to dig a Corinthian canal would be met with illness. Three Roman rulers considered the idea, but all suffered violent deaths, including Julius Caesar, Caligula, the Third Roman Emperor, and Nero. The project was abandoned when he died shortly afterward.
LEFT: Photo of the Corinth Canal
Wikipedia: Winston Cooke, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
RIGHT: Map
Wikipedia: EcoChap, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Overview
Roman Emperor Nero broke ground on building a canal through the Isthmus of Corinth, Greece, in 67 CE. His plan to build the canal included using as slave labor 6,000 Israelite prisoners captured in the Revolt in Judea.
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