Corinthian Matters

Category: Corinthia

  • Pleiades: A Community-Built Gazetteer

    I was pleased to see via a Twitter feed that the Pleiades project received another major round of funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. According to the announcement from the NEH, the Digital Humanities Implementation Grant of $322,615 will support “substantive changes to the technical and editorial infrastructure for the Pleiades gazetteer project, a geographic dataset…

  • Ten Unexpected Stories of Corinthian Archaeology, 2014

    Cozied up at a country house near Granville, Ohio, my family ushered in the new year watching Robert Zemeckis’ Back to the Future II. This movie was a blast from the past. Released in 1989, I was a 15 year old skateboard punk when the film came out, and I distinctly recall conversations with friends…

  • Maps of the Corinthia

    I have updated the Maps section of this website as well as the subdirectories for Contours and Maps of the Corinthia. The latter contains a gallery of maps generated for free distribution for educational and research purposes. The maps present the Corinthia at different scales, with 20 meter and 100 meter contours, generated from the…

  • Contours of Greece from SRTM Data

    This post for users of GIS. You should really take the time to learn how to create contour lines automatically so that you can produce topographic maps at different elevation intervals for whatever region you are researching. But, for those without access to extensions like spatial analyst that enable the conversion, or the time to…

  • A Better Way to Make Topopographic Maps

    When I attended the THATCamp Philly in September 2011, I listened to a presentation by Dianne Dietrich about the value of programming for teachers and researchers in the humanities: the goal is to avoid processes that can be done automatically. If you have to repeat a step more than 3 times, she said, you should…

  • Corinthian Scholarship (monthly): June-August

    The second installment of Corinth-related scholarship that went digital in June-August. Happy reading! Geology Ford, Mary, Sebastian Rohais, Edward A. Williams, Sylvain Bourlange, David Jousselin, Nicolas Backert, and Fabrice Malartre. “Tectono-sedimentary Evolution of the Western Corinth Rift (Central Greece).” Basin Research (2012). Rathossi, C. E., P. G. Lampropoulou, K. C. Skourlis, and C. G. Katagas.…

  • Historical Maps via Trove

    Trove, the National Library of Australia, provides a search engine and metadata for a wide range of textual, audio, and visual sources. Searching by the subjects “Corinth” and “Corinthe” pulls up numerous records for books, pictures, and articles. While most of the bibliography are common to other databases like Worldcat or Google Scholar, I did…

  • Another look at Land of Sikyon

    One spring day in 2005, I ran into Yannis Lolos at the Blegen Library in Athens carrying around his recently completed monograph on the history and archaeology of the region of Sikyon, the polis immediately west of Corinth. He told me at the time that the hundreds and hundreds of freshly printed pages in his…

  • Old Maps Online

    On the Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology facebook page, someone posted this interesting site: Old Maps Online: Discovering the Cartography of the Past.  The site provides hundreds of maps for different parts of the world between the 17th and 20th century.  As the site notes here, “The OldMapsOnline Portal is an easy-to-use gateway to historical maps…

  • Topography World

    Messiah College history major, Josh Krosskove, continues the work of digitizing 20 meter contour lines from 1:50,000 maps of the Korinthia.   See our report on this project last year. We are one step closer to completing this.