Corinthian Matters

Category: Corinth in the Mind

  • The Best Pictures of Ancient Corinth

    I will be experimenting this fall with a new series highlighting images of Corinth, the Corinthia, and the idea of Corinth in the ancient and modern period. The series will actually continue and develop an idea explored through previous posts (categorized Corinth in the Mind) that offered images of Corinth and Corinthian-inspired places and things. This week’s comes from the company /website Look and Learn History…

  • A Flight Through the Corinth Canal

    I’ve said before that Corinth’s Isthmus seems to draw out the crazy in people. Think of Herodes Atticus, the wealthy aristocrat of the second century AD, beholding the landscape and consumed with a desire to cut a canal through it. Or Marcus Antonius, the grandfather of the triumvir, seeing the brilliant opportunity to portage his…

  • Published Proceedings of Corinth Conference held in Urbino, Italy, 2009

    Big conferences seem to be the new thing in Corinthian studies. Gather a gaggle of scholars to hash out the complexity of ancient Corinth. In the last fifteen years, the recent flurry of conferences on the Corinthia have slowly been making their way to publication. In December, someone kindly posted in the comments field of…

  • The Isthmus of Corinth Project

    No end in sight for winter here in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, but a new semester is under way, and with that, you should see a little more activity here at Corinthian Matters. Over the last six weeks, I’ve been busy bringing to completion a book on Corinth’s eastern landscape titled — at least for the moment…

  • Corinthian Scholarship Monthly (November 2013)

    Your latest round of new Corinthian scholarship published or posted online in the last month – just in time for the holiday season. Feel free to reply to this post if you have something to add. If you are interested and qualified to review any of the following, contact me at corinthianmatters@gmail.com. For comprehensive bibliography…

  • The Haunted House of Kraneion: A Corinthian Ghost Story

    Spooky Thursday again. A couple of years ago, I noted the corpus of ancient ghost stories having something to do with the Corinthia and wondered aloud whether this had something to do with Corinth’s reputation as an exotic place, its particular history as a destroyed city, or whether the pattern was common to most ancient…

  • News from the American School of Classical Studies

    Over the next few weeks, I will be updating the site with some of the news bits, stories, and blog pieces that posted in the last six months. All of the following will be old news to those who follow the Corinthian Studies facebook page or the news feed of the ASCSA webpage, but for…

  • Conybeare and Howson, on the True and Faithful Representation of the Apostle (1852)

    For Friday’s picture of Corinth, I offer another vision from 19th century New Testament scholars. This one comes from W.J. Conybeare and Howson’s The Life and Epistles of St. Paul (1852), a major work of biography in its day and a source for Coleman’s sketch of a “most hopeless city” posted two weeks ago. Conybeare…

  • Augustus Neander, on the reason for Paul’s sojourn (1844)

    Last week, I excerpted a text from Lyman Coleman’s historical atlas of the bible (1855) about the Paul’s visit to the “most hopeless city of Corinth.” I decided to trace Coleman’s ideas about Corinth and the consequences of geography. Coleman notes that for his sections on Paul’s travels, he consulted H.B. Hackett’s A Commentary on…

  • Dissertation Corner: A Guide to “Corinth on the Isthmus”

    I recently discovered by accident that my doctoral dissertation on the Late Antique Corinthia was available for free download through OhioLink. When I completed this study in 2006 at Ohio State University, there was concern among graduate students that our university’s decision to disseminate theses and dissertations to the public would jeopardize opportunities for later…