The Diolkos —from the Greek dia (across) and holkos (portage)—at Corinth, was a paved trackway in Ancient Greece which enabled boats to be moved overland across the Isthmus of Corinth. The short cut allowed ancient vessels to avoid the dangerous circumnavigation of the Peloponnese peninsula. The Diolkos was the longest-and most widely recognised-trackway of the three that're recorded from the Ancient Mediterranean. The comic playwright Aristophanes wrote: "as fast as one from Corint… (More on Diolkos)