Corinthian & Saronic Gulfs – Corinthian Matters

Helicopter Rides along the Corinthian Coasts

by David PettegrewMarch 22, 2016March 22, 2016Leave a comment

A website called tripinview claims to be the world’s first visual travel website, whcih makes available 800,000 photos of 300 hours of video of Mediterranean coastline. You can map and search, build a trip, or take the website’s highlight tours from the air. The site offers extensive coverage of Mediterranean coastal territory including fantastic footage of the Corinthia. Searching via the keyword “Corinthia” turns up 40 different coastal locations that include New Corinth, Kiato, Lechaion, Sikyon, Korphos, Kenchreai, and Loutra Elenis.

If you click on a place, you have the option of scrolling through still shots of the coastline taken from a helicopter perspective, or watching 5-10 minute video sequences of the coast. You can also access information and weather information about each of these places.

This is a fantastic tool for seeing Greek coastlines from a whole new perspective. For example, on this six minute flight from Loutra Elenis to the Corinth Canal on the Saronic Gulf, you’ll have a completely unique visual perspective of the winding coastline, Mt. Oneion, topography, and a series of archaeological sites. There are excellent views of the submerged harbor of Kenchreai and the Koutsongila Ridge with its Roman-Late Roman cemetery.

A visual from the cape known as Akra Sophia facing toward Kenchreai and Mt. Oneion. Akra Sophia was the location of Roman to Early Byzantine villa sites published by Timothy Gregory.

And here’s the helicopter perspective from Akra Sophia facing toward the canal. This marks the beginning of the Isthmus, at least as Greek writers of the classical and Hellenistic age imagined the landscape.

On this ten minute flight from the Corinth Canal to Kiato, you’ll see New Corinth and a series of little Corinthian settlements on the Corinthian Gulf. Great images of the external harbor and internal basins at Lechaion, as well as the early Christian basilica there.

Unfortunately no inland footage, so you won’t get a good view of Ancient Corinth except from a distance. Still, this is a great resource. I could imagine showing both of the videos noted above in history or archaeology classes that introduce Corinth’s situation near a connecting Isthmus.

Thanks to Dimitri Nakassis for the tip about this site.

Corinth Terraces Revisited in light of Digital Elevation Models

by David PettegrewFebruary 8, 2016February 3, 2016Leave a comment

Several years ago, I posted a couple of pieces about the value of new satellite imagery for creating high-resolution topographic maps and digital elevation models of the Corinthia and the northeast Peloponnese. The imagery just continues to improve and with it new applications and potential for understanding landscape histories. This multi-

authored article published in September in Geotectonic Research revisits the geomorphic character and history of marine terraces of the Corinthia in light of newly available super-resolution satellite imagery:

De Gelder, G, D Fernández-Blanco, R Lacassin, R Armijo, A Delorme, J Jara-Muñoz, and D Melnick. “Corinth Terraces Re-Visited: Improved Paleoshoreline Determination Using Pleiades-DEMs.” Geotectonic Research 97, no. 1 (September 1, 2015): 12–14. doi:10.1127/1864-5658/2015-06.

As the authors argue in this brief (published conference) paper, available here, new Digital Elevation Models, which are accurate to within half a meter, allow significant enhancements over previous studies in understanding the history “of one of the most extensive and well-preserved terrace sequences in Greece.” So the authors conclude,

With the quality of the Pleiades DEMs we are no longer limited by resolution and accuracy of the topographic information, since uncertainties in the relative contributions of erosion, climate, and tectonics now outweigh those in the data itself, providing an encouraging opportunity to re-evaluate the area. The quality of the Corinth DEM in combination with the TerraceM interface allows us to (locally) detect more terrace sub-levels compared to previous studies, and improve our constraints in finding the paleoshorelines. Apart from terrace analysis, possible future applications of these Pleiades DEMs –both in Corinth and in other locations– include the analyses of (active) faults, river drainages and sedimentary basins, all of which can greatly benefit from this new generation of high-quality topographic data.

Here’s the abstract for those who just want the summary:

The newest generation of satellites have greatly improved the capabilities of optical imagery over the last decade. Ground resolution has increased by one order of magnitude (to sub-metric pixel images), and improved sensors allow images to be located with an absolute accuracy of within a few meters. Better-resolved images facilitate refined tectonic studies of faults, basins, terraces, and other geomorphic features as it provides the opportunity to extract detailed topographic information. We have developed high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) in eight locations in Greece from tri-stereo satellite images acquired by the new Pleiades platform of CNES. With 0.5m resolution, these DEMs are state-of-the-art in comparison to previous DEMs made from satellite imagery. In this study we explore the potential of one of these DEMs, in the eastern Gulf of Corinth, for the analysis of a flight of marine terraces.

Corinthian Scholarship Monthly (December-February). Part 1

by David PettegrewMarch 7, 2014March 7, 20141 Comment

With the end of last semester, holidays, and deadlines, I fell a bit behind on the Corinthian Scholarship Monthly posts. Yesterday I started to dig out, sift through emails, and find the gems in the bunch. This will be the first of two posts on new scholarship that went live in December to February. I’ll try to get the second part of CSM Dec-Feb by the middle of the month.

And kudos to the google bots for doing such a good job. While we’ve been sleeping, playing, teaching, and resting, those bots have been working non-stop to bring all sorts of little nuggets to our network. As always, I’ve included a broader range of articles and essays that mention the Corinthia without focusing on the region — on the assumption that you will be as interested as I am in a broader Mediterranean context. There are also a few entries from past years that the bots have just brought to my attention.

You can find the full collection of articles and books related to Corinthian studies at the Corinthian Studies Zotero Page. The new entries are tagged according to basic categories. Version 2 of the library in RIS format is scheduled to be released by summer.

Finally, I am always looking for reviewers of articles or books listed in the CSM posts. If you can write and are qualified, drop me a line.

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Ambraseys, N. N. “Ottoman Archives and the Assessment of the Seismicity of Greece 1456–1833.” Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering 12, no. 1 (February 1, 2014): 5–43. doi:10.1007/s10518-013-9541-5.

Angeli Bernardini, Paola, ed. Corinto: luogo di azione e luogo di racconto : atti del convengo internazionale, Urbino, 23-25 settembre 2009. Pisa [etc.]: F. Serra, 2013.

Baika, Kalliopi. “The Topography of Shipshed Complexes and Naval Dockyards.” In Shipsheds of the Ancient Mediterranean, edited by David Blackman and Boris Rankov, 185–209. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Balzat, Jean-Sébastien, and Benjamin W. Millis. “M. Antonius Aristocrates: Provincial Involvement with Roman Power in the Late 1st Century B.C.” Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 82, no. 4 (December 2013): 651–672. doi:10.2972/hesperia.82.4.0651.

Blackman, David, and Boris Rankov. Shipsheds of the Ancient Mediterranean. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Borbonus, Dorian. Columbarium Tombs and Collective Identity in Augustan Rome. Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Boyle, A. J., ed. Seneca: Medea: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary. Oxford University Press, 2014.

Collins, John J., ed. The Oxford Handbook of Apocalyptic Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Docter, Roald, and Babette Bechtold. “Two Forgotten Amphorae from the Hamburg Excavations at Carthage (Cyprus, and the Iberian Peninsula) and Their Contexts.” Carthage Studies 5 (2011) (2013): 91–128.

Forbes, Hamish A. “Off-Site Scatters and the Manuring Hypothesis in Greek Survey Archaeology: An Ethnographic Approach.” Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 82, no. 4 (December 2013): 551–594. doi:10.2972/hesperia.82.4.0551.

Frangoulidis, Stavros. “Reception of Strangers in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses: The Examples of Hypata and Cenchreae.” In A Companion to the Ancient Novel, edited by Edmund P. Cueva and Shannon N. Byrne, 275–287. Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons, 2014.

Hall, Jonathan M. Artifact and Artifice: Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historian. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Hawthorn, Geoffrey. Thucydides on Politics: Back to the Present. Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Heil, Andreas, and Gregor Damschen, eds. Brill’s Companion to Seneca: Philosopher and Dramatist. Leiden: Brill, 2013.

Hollander, William den. Josephus, the Emperors, and the City of Rome: From Hostage to Historian. Leiden: Brill, 2014.

James, Paula. “Apuleius’ Metamorphoses: A Hybrid Text?” In A Companion to the Ancient Novel, edited by Edmund P. Cueva and Shannon N. Byrne, 317–329. Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons, 2014.

Jeffreys, Elizabeth. “We Need to Talk about Byzantium: Or, Byzantium, Its Reception of the Classical World as Discussed in Current Scholarship, and Should Classicists Pay Attention?” Classical Receptions Journal 6, no. 1 (January 1, 2014): 158–174. doi:10.1093/crj/clt032.

Kamen, Deborah. “Sale for the Purpose of Freedom: Slave-Prostitutes and Manumission in Ancient Greece.” The Classical Journal 109, no. 3 (March 2014): 281–307. doi:10.5184/classicalj.109.3.0281.

Kampbell, Sarah Marie. “The Economy of Conflict: How East Mediterranean Trade Adapted to Changing Rules, Allegiances and Demographics in the 10th – 12th Centuries AD.” PhD Thesis, Princeton University, 2014.

Klapaki. “The Journey to Greece in the American and the Greek Modernist Literary Imagination: Henry Miller and George Seferis.” In Travel, Discovery, Transformation: Culture and Civilization, Volume 6, edited by Gabriel R. Ricci, 59–78. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2014.

Kolluoğlu, Biray, and Meltem Toksöz, eds. Cities of the Mediterranean: From the Ottomans to the Present Day. I.B.Tauris, 2010.

Korner, Ralph J. “Before ‘Church’: Political, Ethno-Religious, and Theological Implications of the Collective Designation of Pauline Christ Followers as Ekklēsiai.” PhD Thesis, McMaster University, 2014.

Kreitzer, L.J. “Hadrian as Nero Redivivus: Some Supporting Evidence from Corinth.” In Judaea and Rome in Coins 65 BCE-135 CE: Papers Presented at the International Conference Hosted by Spink, 13th-14th September 2010, edited by David M Jacobson and Nikos Kokkinos, 229–242. London: Spink, 2012.

Legarreta-Castillo, Felipe De Jesus. The Figure of Adam in Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 15: The New Creation and Its Ethical and Social Reconfigurations. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2014.

Matz, Brian J. “Early Christian Philanthropy as a ‘Marketplace’ and the Moral Responsibility of Market Participants.” In Distant Markets, Distant Harms: Economic Complicity and Christian Ethics, edited by Daniel Finn, 115–145? New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Mitski, Efterpi. “Commodifying Antiquity in Mary Nisbet’s Journey to the Ottoman Empire.” In Travel, Discovery, Transformation: Culture and Civilization, Volume 6, edited by Gabriel R. Ricci, 45–58. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2014.

Morhange, Christophe, Amos Salamon, Guénaelle Bony, Clément Flaux, Ehud Galili, Jean-Philippe Goiran, and Dov Zviely. “Geoarchaeology of Tsunamis and the Revival of Neo-Catastrophism in the Eastern Mediterranean.” Rome “La Sapienza” Studies on the Archaeology of Palestine & Transjordan 11 (2014): 61–81.

Ong, H. T. “Paul’s Personal Relation with Earliest Christianity: A Critical Survey.” Currents in Biblical Research 12, no. 2 (February 7, 2014): 146–172. doi:10.1177/1476993X12467114.

Pachis, Panayotis. “Data from Dead Minds? Dream and Healing in the Isis / Sarapis Cult During the Graeco-Roman Age.” Journal of Cognitive Historiography 1, no. 1 (January 23, 2014): 52–71.

Pallis, Georgios. “Inscriptions on Middle Byzantine Marble Templon Screens.” Byzantinische Zeitschrift 106, no. 2 (January 2013): 761–810. doi:10.1515/bz-2013-0026.

Polinskaya, Irene. A Local History of Greek Polytheism: Gods, People and the Land of Aigina, 800-400 BCE. Leiden: Brill, 2013.

Priestley, Jessica. Herodotus and Hellenistic Culture: Literary Studies in the Reception of the Histories. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Punt, Jeremy. “Framing Human Dignity through Domination and Submission? Negotiating Borders and Loyalties (of Power) in the New Testament.” Scriptura 112 (2013): 1–17. doi:10.7833/112-0-82.

Rankov, Boris. “Slipping and Launching.” In Shipsheds of the Ancient Mediterranean, edited by David Blackman and Boris Rankov, 102–123. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Reed, David Alan. “Paul on Marriage and Singleness: Reading 1 Corinthians with the Augustan Marriage Laws.” PhD Thesis. University of St. Michael’s College, 2013.

Saliari, Konstantina, and Erich Draganits. “Early Bronze Age Bone Tubes from the Aegean: Archaeological Context, Use and Distribution.” Archeometriai Műhely [Archaeometry Workshop] (2013): 179–192.

Shpuza, Ermanl. “Allometry in the Syntax of Street Networks: Evolution of Adriatic and Ionian Coastal Cities 1800–2010.” Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design (2014). doi:doi:10.1068/b39109.

Siek, Thomas James. “A Study in Paleo-Oncology: On the Identification of Neoplastic Disease in Archaeological Bone.” Master of Arts Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2014.

Thein, Alexander. “Reflecting on Sulla’s Clemency.” Historia 63, no. 2 (April 1, 2014): 166–186.

Toffolo, Michael B., Alexander Fantalkin, Irene S. Lemos, Rainer C. S. Felsch, Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier, Guy D. R. Sanders, Israel Finkelstein, and Elisabetta Boaretto. “Towards an Absolute Chronology for the Aegean Iron Age: New Radiocarbon Dates from Lefkandi, Kalapodi and Corinth.” PLoS ONE 8, no. 12 (December 26, 2013): e83117. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0083117.

Waterfield, Robin. Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Williams, Drake, and H. H. “‘Imitate Me’: Interpreting Imitation In 1 Corinthians in Relation to Ignatius of Antioch.” Perichoresis 11, no. 1 (June 1, 2013): 77–95.

Wright, Christopher. The Gattilusio Lordships and the Aegean World 1355-1462. Leiden: Brill, 2014.

Corinthiaka

by David PettegrewFebruary 28, 2014February 28, 20141 Comment

Some miscellaneous Corinthiaka that have slowly aggregated over the last month or so.

A Recent Earthquake in the Gulf of Corinth

The debate over privatization of Greece’s archaeological sites:

Can Privatization Save the Treasures of Ancient Greece? (Time)
Greek archaeologists reject call for private firms to manage ancient sites (ekathimerini)

Archaeologies of Décor by Dr. Sarah Lepinski
Underwater Archaeology (of a sort) at Loutraki
Pinterest is becoming a useful place to find good Corinthiaka images. Check out Loutraki, Corinth, Corinth Canal, Isthmia, and 1 Corinthians 13

Finding Corinthia images via Google freely available for reuse (h/t to Beth Mark for showing me this trick):

Corinthian Scholarship Monthly (November 2013)

by David PettegrewDecember 2, 2013Leave a comment

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 related to the Corinthia, see this page and visit the Corinthia Library at Zotero.

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Archaic-Hellenistic

Erskine, Andrew. “Making Sense of the Romans: Polybius and the Greek Perspective.” Dialogues D’histoire Ancienne S 9, no. Supplément 9 (2013): 115–129.
Friesen, Steven J., Sarah James, and Daniel Schowalter, eds. Corinth in Contrast: Studies in Inequality. BRILL, 2013.
Hubbard, Thomas K., ed. A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities. John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
Jim, Theodora Suk Fong. “The Nature of the Religious Dispute in Thucydides 1.25.4.” The Classical Quarterly (New Series) 63, no. 02 (2013): 537–542. .
Kyle McIlvaine, Britney, Lynne A. Schepartz, Clark Spencer Larsen, and Paul W. Sciulli. “Evidence for Long-term Migration on the Balkan Peninsula Using Dental and Cranial Nonmetric Data: Early Interaction Between Corinth (Greece) and Its Colony at Apollonia (Albania).” American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2013): n/a–n/a. doi:10.1002/ajpa.22425.
Pascual, José, and Maria-Foteini Papakonstantinou, eds. Topography and History of Ancient Epicnemidian Locris. BRILL, 2013.
Romano, David G. “Athletic Festivals in the Northern Peloponnese and Central Greece.” In A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity, edited by Paul Christesen and Donald G. Kyle, 176–191. John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
Spaeth, Barbette Stanley. The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Mediterranean Religions. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Wees, Hans Van. Ships and Silver, Taxes and Tribute: A Fiscal History of Archaic Athens. I.B.Tauris, 2013.

Roman

Friesen, Steven J., Sarah James, and Daniel Schowalter, eds. Corinth in Contrast: Studies in Inequality. BRILL, 2013.
Hubbard, Thomas K., ed. A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities. John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
Pascual, José, and Maria-Foteini Papakonstantinou, eds. Topography and History of Ancient Epicnemidian Locris. BRILL, 2013.
Spaeth, Barbette Stanley. The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Mediterranean Religions. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Late Roman

Friesen, Steven J., Sarah James, and Daniel Schowalter, eds. Corinth in Contrast: Studies in Inequality. BRILL, 2013.

New Testament

Branch, R.G. “Funny Bone Finds a Home: A Musical Featuring the Body of Christ.” In Die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi 47, no. 1 (2013): Art. #113, 17 pages.
Friesen, Steven J., Sarah James, and Daniel Schowalter, eds. Corinth in Contrast: Studies in Inequality. BRILL, 2013.
Malherbe, Abraham J. Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays, 1959–2012, by Abraham J. Malherbe. Edited by Carl R. Holladay, John T. Fitzgerald, James W. Thompson, and Gregory E. Sterling. BRILL, 2013.
Spaeth, Barbette Stanley. The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Mediterranean Religions. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Tucker, J. Brian, and Coleman A. Baker, eds. T&T Clark Handbook to Social Identity in the New Testament. T&T Clark, 2014.
Watson, Nathan. “Dreams and Superstition: A Reinterpretation of Satire in Apuleius, Metamorphoses 11.” Ancient Narrative 11 (2013).

Diachronic

Christesen, Paul, and Donald G. Kyle, eds. A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity. John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
Hubbard, Thomas K., ed. A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities. John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
Pascual, José, and Maria-Foteini Papakonstantinou, eds. Topography and History of Ancient Epicnemidian Locris. BRILL, 2013.
Spaeth, Barbette Stanley. The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Mediterranean Religions. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Other

Matsangouras, I. T., P. T. Nastos, H. B. Bluestein, and M. V. Sioutas. “A Climatology of Tornadic Activity over Greece Based on Historical Records.” International Journal of Climatology (2013): n/a–n/a. doi:10.1002/joc.3857. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.3857/abstract

Corinthian Scholarship Monthly (October 2013)

by David PettegrewNovember 4, 2013November 4, 2013Leave a comment

Here’s the round-up of new Corinthiaka scholarship for the month of October. Happy Reading. You can also find these entries at the Corinthian Studies Group Library Page in Zotero.

Bronze Age

Pullen, Daniel. “The Life and Death of a Mycenaean Port Town: Kalamianos on the Saronic Gulf.” Journal of Maritime Archaeology no. October (2013): 1–18. doi:10.1007/s11457-013-9113-5.

Early Iron Age-Hellenistic

Eckstein, Arthur M. “Polybius, Phylarchus, and Historiographical Criticism.” Classical Philology 108, no. 4 (2013): 314–338. doi:10.1086/671786.
Fenn, Nina, and Christiane Römer-Strehl, eds. Networks in the Hellenistic World: According to the Pottery in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond. BAR International Series 2359. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013. http://www.archaeopress.com/archaeopressshop/DMS/9C2CFE43-CDDB-45C3-B8E5-00B787E8A250.PDF
Fowler, Robert L. Early Greek Mythography: Volume 2: Commentary. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ
Fragoulaki, Maria. Kinship in Thucydides. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. http://books.google.com/books?id=9ZofAQAAQBAJ
Langdon, Susan. “Children as Learners and Producers in Early Greece.” In The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World, edited by Judith Evans Grubbs, Tim Parkin, and Roslynne Bell, 172–194. Oxford University Press, 2014.
Oakley, John H. “Children in Archaic and Classical Greek Art: A Survey.” In The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World, edited by Judith Evans Grubbs, Tim Parkin, and Roslynne Bell, 147–171. Oxford University Press, 2014.
Prag, Jonathan R., and Josephine C. Quinn, eds. The Hellenistic West. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. http://books.google.com/books?id=9UMIAQAAQBAJ
Rebaudo, Ludovico. “The Underworld Painter and the Corinthian Adventures of Medea: An Interpretation of the Crater in Munich.” Engramma – La Tradizione Classica Nella Memoria Occidentale 109, no. September (2013). http://www.engramma.it/eOS2/index.php?id_articolo=1380
Wilson, Andrew. “Trading Across the Syrtes: Euesperides and the Punic World.” In The Hellenistic West, edited by Jonathan R. Prag and Josephine C. Quinn, 120–156. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. http://books.google.com/books?id=9UMIAQAAQBAJ

Roman and Late Antique

Schultze, Clemence. “Universal and Particular in Velleius Paterculus: Carthage Versus Rome.” In Historiae Mundi: Studies in Universal History, edited by Peter Liddel and Andrew Fear, 116–130. A&C Black, 2013. http://books.google.com/books?id=hb6OAQAAQBAJ
Ulrich, Roger B., and Caroline K. Quenemoen, eds. A Companion to Roman Architecture. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. http://books.google.com/books?id=ufVQAQAAQBAJ
Williams, Charles K., II. “Corinth, 2011: Investigation of the West Hall of the Theater.” Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 82, no. 3 (2013): 487–549. doi:10.2972/hesperia.82.3.0487.

New Testament and Early Christian

Brown, Alexandra R. “Creation, Gender, and Identity in (New) Cosmic Perspective: 1 Corinthians 11:2-16.” In The Unrelenting God: Essays on God’s Action in Scripture in Honor of Beverly Roberts Gaventa, edited by David J. Downs and Matthew L. Skinner, 172–193. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2013. http://books.google.com/books?id=uuBgAQAAQBAJ.
Downing, F. Gerald. Order and (Dis)order in the First Christian Century: A General Survey of Attitudes. BRILL, 2013. http://books.google.com/books?id=PfeZAAAAQBAJ
Eastman, Susan Grove. “Ashes on the Frontal Lobe: Cognitive Dissonance and Cruciform Cognition in 2 Corinthians.” In The Unrelenting God: Essays on God’s Action in Scripture in Honor of Beverly Roberts Gaventa, edited by David J. Downs and Matthew L. Skinner, 194–207. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2013. http://books.google.com/books?id=uuBgAQAAQBAJ
Schellenberg, Ryan S. Rethinking Paul’s Rhetorical Education: Comparative Rhetoric and 2 Corinthians 10–13. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2013. http://books.google.com/books?id=8TRXAQAAQBAJ
Van den Hoek, Annewies. “The Saga of Peter and Paul: Emblems of Catholic Identity in Christian Literature and Art.” In Pottery, Pavements, and Paradise: Iconographic and Textual Studies on Late Antiquity, edited by Annewies van den Hoek and John Joseph Herrmann, 301–326. BRILL, 2013. http://books.google.com/books?id=RcJSAQAAQBAJ

Diachronic

Hadler, H., A. Vött, B. Koster, M. Mathes-Schmidt, T. Mattern, K. Ntageretzis, K. Reicherter, and T. Willershäuser. “Multiple late-Holocene Tsunami Landfall in the Eastern Gulf of Corinth Recorded in the Palaeotsunami Geo-archive at Lechaion, Harbour of Ancient Corinth” (2013).
Williams, Charles K., II. “Corinth, 2011: Investigation of the West Hall of the Theater.” Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 82, no. 3 (2013): 487–549. doi:10.2972/hesperia.82.3.0487.

The Isthmus and the Consequences of Geography

by David PettegrewNovember 20, 2012Leave a comment

I returned yesterday evening from the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and American Academy of Religion. I’ll write more about the sessions on Roman Corinth tomorrow.

For now, I post below (via my Scribd account) a draft of the paper I gave on the diolkos. As the paper was a summary of recent scholarship, it lacks many footnotes where you might expect them. If you’re interested in pursuing the subject, following the references in footnote two to Lohmann (in press), Koutsoumba and Nakas (in press), and Pettegrew (2011).

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Corinthian Scholarship Monthly (Sept 2012)

by David PettegrewOctober 1, 2012December 4, 2013Leave a comment

The latest round up of scholarship relevant to Corinth posted online in the last month.

Archaic-Classical Corinth

Greco, Giovanna, Ferrara, Bianca, and Tomeo, Antonella. “South-western Area of the Forum of Cumae. Analysis of Fabrics and Pottery Productions.” Rendiconti Online Della Società Geologica Italiana 21 (2012): 753–755.
Greco, Giovanna, Paternoster, Giovanni, Ferrara, Bianca, Franco, Marianna, and Giacco, Marialucia. “The Sanctuary of Hera at the Mouth of the River Sele: Non Destructive Analysis of Archaeological Finds.” Rendiconti Online Della Società Geologica Italiana 21 (2012): 756–758.

Geology and Environment

Karymbalis, Efthimios, Christos Chalkias, George Chalkias, Eleni Grigoropoulou, George Manthos, and Maria Ferentinou. “Assessment of the Sensitivity of the Southern Coast of the Gulf of Corinth (Peloponnese, Greece) to Sea-level Rise.” Central European Journal of Geosciences (n.d.): 1–17.
Leeder, M. R., D. F. Mark, R. L. Gawthorpe, H. Kranis, S. Loveless, N. Pedentchouk, E. Skourtsos, J. Turner, J. E. Andrews, and M. Stamatakis. “A ‘Great Deepening’: Chronology of Rift Climax, Corinth Rift, Greece.” Geology (August 22, 2012).

New Testament

Kibbe, Michael. “‘The Obedience of Christ’: A Reassessment of Τὴν Ὑπακοὴν Τοῦ Χριστοῦ in 2 Corinthians 10:5.” Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters 2, no. 1 (2012): 41–56.
Ng, Eng Hock. “Sophistic Influence: The Key to Interpreting 1 Corinthians 12–14”. PhD Thesis, Fuller Theological Seminary, 2012.

Corinthian Scholarship (monthly): June-August

by David PettegrewAugust 31, 2012August 29, 2012Leave a comment

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. “Mineralogy and Microfabrics of Clay-bearing Sediments of NE Peloponnese (Greece): Indices for Physical Behaviour in Civil Engineering Works.” Clay Minerals 47, no. 2 (June 1, 2012): 259–274.
Lazaridou-Varotsos, Mary S. Earthquake Prediction by Seismic Electric Signals The Success of the VAN Method over Thirty Years. Springer Praxis Books, Forthcoming 2013.

Archaic-Hellenistic

McIlvaine, Britney Kyle. “Greek Colonization of the Balkans: Bioarchaeological Reconstruction of Behavior and Lifestyle During Corinthian Colonial Expansion into Ancient Apollonia, Albania”. PhD Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 2012.
Mastrotheodoros, G., K. G. Beltsios, N. Zacharias, V. Aravantinos, and K. Kalliga. “Decorated Archaic Pottery from the Heracles Sanctuary at Thebes: A Materials, Technology and Provenance Study.” Archaeometry (2012).
Bowe, Patrick. “The Origin and Development of the Ancient Greek Fountain.” Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes 32, no. 3 (2012): 201–213.

Roman-Late Antique

Yoder, Joshua P. “Representatives of Roman Rule: Roman Governors in Luke-Acts”. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Notre Dame, 2012.

New Testament and Early Christianity

Ogereau, Julien M. “The Jerusalem Collection as Κοινωνία: Paul’s Global Politics of Socio-Economic Equality and Solidarity.” New Testament Studies 58, no. 03 (2012): 360–378.
Harper, Kyle. “Porneia: The Making of a Christian Sexual Norm.” Journal of Biblical Literature 131, no. 2 (July 1, 2012): 363–383.
Ellington, Dustin. “Not Applicable to Believers? The Aims and Basis of Paul’s ‘I’ in 2 Corinthians 10-13.” Journal of Biblical Literature 131, no. 2 (July 1, 2012): 325–340.
Sutton, Matthew Lewis. “Hans Urs Von Balthasar and Adrienne Von Speyr’s Ecclesial Relationship.” New Blackfriars (2012).
Kok, Jacobus. “Mission and Ethics in 1 Corinthians: Reconciliation, Corporate Solidarity and Other-regard as Missionary Strategy in Paul.” HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 68, no. 1 (June 29, 2012).
Zimmermann, Ruben. “Mission Versus Ethics in 1 Corinthians 9? ‘Implicit Ethics’ as an Aid in Analysing New Testament Texts.” HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 68, no. 1 (June 29, 2012).
Nicklas, Tobias, and Herbert Schlögel. “Mission to the Gentiles: The Construction of Christian Identity and Its Relationship with Ethics According to Paul.” HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 68, no. 1 (June 29, 2012).
Lietaert Peerbolte, Bert Jan. “Morality and Boundaries in Paul.” HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 68, no. 1 (June 29, 2012).
Yoder, Joshua P. “Representatives of Roman Rule: Roman Governors in Luke-Acts”. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Notre Dame, 2012.
Gavin, John. “‘The Grief Willed by God’: Three Patristic Interpretations of 2Cor 7:10.” Gregorianum 91, no. 3 (2010): 427–442.
Paget, James Carleton. “Marcion and the Resurrection: Some Thoughts on a Recent Book.” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 35, no. 1 (September 1, 2012): 74–102.
Liu, Yulin. “Temple Purity in 1-2 Corinthians in the Context of the Jewish and Greco-Roman World”. Doctoral Dissertation, Trinity International University, 2012.
Brookins, Timothy A. “The Wise Man Among the Corinthians: Rethinking Their Wisdom in the Light of Ancient Stoicism and Studies on Ancient Economy”. Doctoral Dissertation, Baylor University, 2012.

Medieval and Post-Medieval

Bingaman, Brock, and Bradley Nassif (eds.). The Philokalia: Exploring the Classic Text of Orthodox Spirituality. Oxford University Press, 2012. [Makarios of Corinth]
Zazzara, Lucio, Federico D’Amico, and Marietta Vrotsou. “Changing Port–City Interface at Corinth (Greece): Transformations and Opportunities.” Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences 48, no. 0 (2012): 3134–3142.
Greenhalgh, Michael. Constantinople to Córdoba: Dismantling Ancient Architecture in the East, North Africa and Islamic Spain. Leiden 2012: Brill.
Stouraiti, Anastasia. “Colonial Encounters, Local Knowledge and the Making of the Cartographic Archive in the Venetian Peloponnese.” European Review of History: Revue Europeenne D’histoire 19, no. 4 (2012): 491–514.
Veikou, Myrto. Byzantine Epirus: A Topography of Transformation. Settlements of the Seventh-Twelfth Centuries in Southern Epirus and Aetoloacarnania, Greece. Leiden 2012: Brill. [Corinth is a constant thread]

University of Patras Marine Geology

by David PettegrewApril 27, 2012April 27, 2012Leave a comment

Oceanus, the website dedicated to the Network of Laboratories of the University of Patras, has posted information relevant to a geological fieldtrip to the Corinthia. The pages have maps and brief summaries of geological processes influencing different parts of the Corinthian and Saronic coastlines, including the harbor sites of Kenchreai and Lechaion and the diolkos, the marine terraces near the Corinth Canal and Corinth, and Perachora marine terraces and wave notches (coming soon).

Some miscellaneous Corinthiaka that have slowly aggregated over the last month or so.

Pinterest is becoming a useful place to find good Corinthiaka images. Check out Loutraki, Corinth, Corinth Canal, Isthmia, and 1 Corinthians 13