Corinthiaka

Every month I sort through hundreds of google alerts, scholar alerts, academia notices, book review sites, and other social media in an attempt to find a few valuable bits to pass along via this site. I ignore the vast majority of hits that enter my inbox, store away those that I plan to develop into their own stories, and then release the ephemera (or those I fail to convert to stories) via these Corinthiaka posts. Here are a few from the last month–a small selection of the news, stories, and blogs about the Corinthia.

Archaeology and Classics:

• Review of Waterfield’s Taken at the Flood. The Roman Conquest of Greece (in The Classical Review)
• Ancient Corinth and the Isthmus of Corinth on Unionpedia, the newest wiki site that defines a concept and lists associations
• This is close enough to the Corinthia to include–the discovery of a submerged Bronze Age village in the Koilada Bay: covered at SperoNews. We noted the mysterious expedition of this large solar-powered boat back in January–glad to see the end in sight
• We’re also close enough to note another exciting discovery posted last week, a “palace” with Linear B tablets at Ayios Vassileios near the village of Xirokambi in Laconia:
  • “Archaeologists making exciting discoveries in Laconia” (@ekathimerini.com)
  • “Lost Palace of Sparta Possibly Uncovered” (@Live Science)

New Testament:

• “Sanity About the Spirit: Not in 1 Corinthians!” (Jack Levison @Patheos)
• “Commentaries and resource on 1 Corinthians– the best” (Matthew Malcolm @cryptotheology)
• “Were there really ‘Paul’ and ‘Apollos’ factions in the Corinthian church?” (cryptotheology)

Modern Greece:

• “At the Lake Vouliagmeni in Loutraki” (Short video in Greek about Perachora and Vouliagmeni @mygreece.tv)