Category: Corinth in the Mind
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Lyman Coleman, on the most hopeless city of Corinth (1855)
One of the projects I’m working on this year is a study of how ancient and modern writers have interpreted the historical fortunes of Corinth through the lens of its eastern landscape, the Isthmus. How did a land bridge become so consequential for writing the history of the city? It’s a topic I’ve commented on…
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Easter Reflections
It’s been a busy couple of weeks. Traveling, work shops on digitization and information fluency, pressing publication schedules, and the grind of the semester have reduced the output from this site. I have lots in the work that I hope to get out in the next couple of weeks including a Corinthian Scholarship (monthly). In…
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Corinthian Exceptionalism in Western Civ Textbooks
In the comments to my post last week on Athens, Sparta, and Corinth in Western Civilization texts, Dimitri Nakassis pressed me to say a little more about how Corinth has figured differently into western civ textbooks over time—how changing times have differently imaged Corinth. Since western civ textbooks were traditionally conceived to provide the foundations…
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Athens, Sparta, and Corinth in Western Civilization Texts
Every February, the Center for Public Humanities at Messiah College—where I teach—sponsors a symposium devoted to discussing a theme broadly relevant to faculty and student interest. In the past, the center has sponsored themes on the subjects of culture and community, the two Americas, imagination, memory, and friendship, among others. This year’s theme is “The…
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Two Corinthian Christmases
Happy Holidays from Corinthian Matters! Surprising amounts of Corinthiaka in my feeds over the last few days. Here are two very different Corinthian Christmases, an impressionistic rumination of modern Corinth in terms of its ancient classical image, the second a religious reflection on 1 Corinthians 13. The first describes Henry Miller’s and Lawrence Durrell’s visit…
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Corinth at the Tate
Museums are increasingly posting collections of images and artwork online which, on occasion, deal with Corinthian topics. In the midst of the end-of-semester madness, I learned of Tate’s extensive online collection of art through alerts sparked by the posting of Corinthian images on a new beta site (to replace its current digital collection). Some interesting…
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Corinthiaka
Some varied Corinthiaka to start off the week. The western liturgical calendar flipped this weekend with the first Sunday of Advent. Yesterday’s epistle reading from 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 appropriate describes the anticipation accentuated in the advent season. More on scholars and students of the New Testament setting the scene for understanding Paul’s Corinthian letters. Mark…
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Some Perspective on American Excavations in Corinth: Byzantium and the Avant Garde
I couldn’t make it last week to Grand Forks to hear Franklin & Marshall College professor Kostis Kourelis speak on the topic of Byzantium and the Avant Garde. Thanks to Bill Caraher and the Center for Instructional and Learning Technologies at the University of North Dakota for streaming the lecture live. The video, audio, and…
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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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Corinthiaka
Some various Corinthiaka have appeared in different blogs over the last month. Diana Wright at Surprised by Time gives some attention to the death and estate of Nerio Acciaiuoli, the (late 14th century) Lord of Corinth. Kostis Kourelis at Objects-Buildings-Situations discusses graffiti at the Lechaion basilica From Matthew Malcolm at Cryptotheology: Malcolm has announced that…
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