Category: American School Excavations
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Gods, games and glass mosaics at the Isthmus (an overview and review of Isthmia)
The Athens News has been running a biweekly column by archaeologist John Leonard about the famous sites of Greece. This week’s piece, “Gods, Games, and Glass Mosaics at the Isthmus,” provides an overview and review of what is now visible at the archaeological site of Isthmia. Here is part of the introduction: “Sometimes, however, certain…
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Going to San Francisco for the Society of Biblical Literature? An Invitation to Contribute
The annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature runs this week from Saturday to Tuesday and will offer more than 50 papers related in some way to the study of Corinth. In August, I posted a comprehensive list of these Corinthiaka papers that deal with, variously, the history and archaeology of the city, the…
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Kostis Kourelis on Byzantium and the Avant Garde
Professor Kostis Kourelis of Franklin and Marshall College will speak today at 4 PM CST on the American School Excavations at Corinth in the 1930s. The presentation at the University of North Dakota is the 2011 Cyprus Research Fund Lecture. As Bill Caraher notes at here, he “will tell the unlikely story of how the…
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James Wright appointed as Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
This press release (below) from the American School of Classical Studies at Athens seems appropriate for Corinthianmatters – as the century-old excavation at Corinth falls under the purview of the School, and as James Wright directs the Nemea Valley Archaeological Project. ********************************** PRESS RELEASE: AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS ANNOUNCES THE APPOINTMENT OF…
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Corinthiaka at the AIA / APA 2012
The Archaeological Institute of America and the American Philological Association have posted preliminary programs for their annual meetings in Philadelphia, January 5-8, 2012. As in last year’s program, Corinthiaka are covered through AIA / APA papers and posters. The following list was generated from paper titles alone and will grow as the abstracts go live. …
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Oscar Broneer, St. Paul, and Wicked Corinth (and a new blog)
In a recent blog post at Objects-Buildings-Situations, Kostis Kourelis has pointed out that Ohians have the tendency to blog about Greece, and especially post-classical Greece and their experiences with the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. He refers to Bill Caraher’s Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, Katie Rask’s Antiquated Vagaries, and now Dallas DeForest’s…
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Histories of Peirene
There are no monuments of ancient Corinth more famous and iconic than the Fountain of Peirene. Any modern visitor who has wandered among the ruins will likely have shot a photo like the one below of the Roman spring facade and court. And anyone who walks into a tourist shop will have seen plenty of…
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Corinthian Scholarship (August 2011)
Archaic-Hellenistic: Corinth gets some attention in the newest Mediterranean history book: David Abulafia, The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean, Oxford 2011: Oxford University Press. Also in this book: Victor Davis Hanson (ed.), Makers of Ancient Strategy: From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome, Princeton 2010: Princeton University Press. Late Antiquity …
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A Roman Road in the Panayia Field
For most people who visit the site of Ancient Corinth, the Roman forum is the principal (if not only) destination. Many visitors are unaware of the ancient buildings and ancient spaces scattered about the modern village and enclosed in chain-linked fences. Temples, tombs, villas, walls, churches, amphitheater all highlight the urban world buried beneath the…
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