Category: Digital Corinthia
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Helicopter Rides along the Corinthian Coasts
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…
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Ancient City: Application of Novel Geo-Information Technologies in Ancient Greek Urban Studies
I received an email from Jamie Donati who kindly shared with me more information about the Ancient City project and website, which provides the: aims and scope of the project (including digitization, remote sensing, geophysical mapping, GIS analysis, and dissemination) archaeological sites of the Peloponnese under study technical reports about geophysical survey and remote sensing presentations and publications (with available downloads)…
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Reading 1 and 2 Corinthians in the Digital Age
A few years ago, a survey by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life found that Americans on average were broadly illiterate about the core beliefs, writings, and teachings of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Only about half of Americans, for example, know the Koran is the sacred text of Islam, Martin Luther was somehow associated with the Protestant Reformation, or…
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AncientCity – Urbanization through Geoinformatics
Updated March 21, 2016 with italicized additions and strikethrough. See also this update. ***************************************************** At the 8th Congress of the Balkan Geophysical Society, held in early October in Chania, Crete, a group of authors presented a paper on a new project called AncientCity – A new Frontier in Ancient Greek Urbanization through Geoinformatics. I don’t see that the project has its own web presence yet,…
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An Invitation to Improve Corinthian Articles in Wikipedia
We all know that Wikipedia, with its 5 million+ articles, is a first stop for students, the general public, and researchers looking for quick answers to factual questions about the ancient world. In an important article published a decade ago in The Journal of American History, the late Roy Rosenzweig found that this global encyclopedia was less inaccurate than an historian might initially…
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Pleiades Retooled
Last month I noted that the Pleiades Gazetteer received a major digital humanities implementation grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to make substantive changes to the project’s infrastructure. Tom Elliot has written a little more about how the grant will extend and improve the project’s functionality. Here’s the relevant section from the press release: Over the next three years, ISAW…
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Strabo’s Mediterranean
The historian and geographer Strabo visited the Corinthia in 29 BC and later drafted what would become one of the most influential and misunderstood accounts of a city made wealthy and corrupted from its position astride a connecting Isthmus. The passage (8.6.20-23) strongly colored the first European accounts of the region, and made its way into so many modern views of Greek and Roman…
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American Excavations at Kenchreai (in 3D)
The latest issue of The Amphora includes an article by Sebastian Heath outlining new low-cost techniques for making 3D models of artifacts at Kenchreai. Heath expands an earlier piece recently published in the popular ebook (ed. Caraher and Olson), Visions of Substance: 3D Imaging in Mediterranean Archaeology by comparing two methods for making 3D models at Kenchreai, the photogrammetric software program called Agisoft and a structure scanner developed for the iPad.…
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Coming Soon: The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey Data
One of the projects I have been working on this summer is the publication and online presentation of the data sets of the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey, an intensive archaeological survey of Corinth’s eastern territory carried out between 1997 and 2003. The EKAS project has been a frequent point of discussion here at Corinthian Matters, of course. Although the project covered a relatively…
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American School of Classical Studies Concludes 2015 Season
The American School of Classical Studies Excavations at Corinth announced on Friday the conclusion to their 2015 season which focused this season on continuing excavation in the Frankish quarters, conservation of the Good Luck mosaic, excavation in the area of South Stoa, 3D scans of the Fountain of Peirene, among others. Here’s the news release…
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