Hadrian

Hadrian (117–138) and Trajan tolerated the Christians decreeing similar policies. Suetonius, friend of senator Pliny the Younger was the secretary of studies, director of Imperial archives, and became the Emperor Hadrian's secretary until dismissed because of an affair with the empress Sabina.

For Christians, Corinth is known from the two books First Corinthians and Second Corinthians in the New Testament. The 2nd book of Pausanias' Description of Greece is devoted also to Corinth. Pausanias was a Greek traveler and geographer of the 2nd century AD, who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius.