Corinthian Matters

Month: November 2015

  • Isthmia IV (Sturgeon) and VII (Raubitschek) Online

    Chuck Jones kindly pointed out that two additional volumes of the Isthmia Series were available online. As orginally noted in his post from 2011 concerning open access publications of the ASCSA, Google Books has released previews of Isthmia Vol. IV. Sculpture I: 1952-1967  (Mary C. Sturgeon) and Isthmia Vol. VII: The Metal Objects, 1952-1989 (Isabelle K. Raubitschek). The previews are not complete and omit key…

  • Joseph Rife’s Isthmia IX available in JSTOR

    Several years ago, the American School’s long-running series on the Corinth excavations was released via JSTOR allowing anyone with access to JSTOR to browse thousands of digitized pages of archaeological volumes from Corinth. I have been hoping that digitized works of the Isthmia series might someday be released via JSTOR as well. I don’t know of what plans are in place for that end, but I did see that Joseph Rife’s…

  • The Roman Audience: Classical Literature as Social History (Wiseman)

    This new book by T.P. Wiseman caught my eye when I saw it via Google Alerts in late August. Published this fall by Oxford University Press, The Roman Audience: Classical Literature as Social History offers a novel interpretation of Roman literature and its reach to broad public audiences. The book is clearly relevant for a city like Roman Corinth, for which most of our…