Corinthian Matters

Category: Digital Corinthia

  • Barrington Atlas Coming to iPads

    I just heard the good news that Princeton University Press will release an iPad app version of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World next month. Release date is scheduled for November 21. The cost: only $19.95. For some comparison, the print publication runs $250-$400 via Amazon and lists at $400 at Princeton…

  • Creating a Library of Ancient Citations and Texts in Zotero and EndNote

    In 1998, when I was completing an M.A. thesis on Classical farmsteads, I compiled hundreds of relevant Greek and Latin texts on handwritten 4 x 6” notecards. Running searches on Greek keywords for farms and rural life via the CD-ROM produced by the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, a comprehensive library of all Greek literary texts produced…

  • Corinthian Studies, Zotero, and THATCamp Harrisburg

    About a year ago, we announced the launch of the Corinthian Studies Library in Zotero. The first version of the library, which can be downloaded as an RIS file at this page, can be imported into a number of bibliographic programs like EndNote or Zotero. Or, you can view the collection online at Zotero’s server.…

  • Workshop: Ancient Corinth and Roman City Planning

    It’s not often that ancient workshops about Ancient Corinth come to south-central Pennsylvania. If you’re in driving range of Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, come out on November 16. I hope to be there myself. Below are details from the Classical Studies Department at Dickinson. *********************************************************** The Dickinson College Department of Classical Studies will sponsor…

  • Information Fluency and Digital History

    I’m not sure I had heard of the term “infofluency” before attending a workshop on the subject last spring in Baltimore. Hosted by the Council of Independent Colleges, the theme of the workshop was “information fluency” in ancient studies. A grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded a number of small CIC colleges like…

  • Archaeological Research at Corinth – Summer 2012

    The ASCSA website carries a recent report by Ioulia Tzonou-Herbst summarizing archaeological work in Corinth and the region last summer. The essay offers a snapshot of a wide range of research and programs currently being carried out by archaeologists, art historians, and historians:  the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore, the Gymnasium, Fountain of the Lamps,…

  • 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…

  • The Christianization of the Peloponnese

    Dr. Sanders recently shared a link (via the Corinthian Studies facebook group) to an interesting new digital project by Dr. Rebecca Sweetman and the University of St. Andrews titled “The Christianization of the Peloponnese.” The home page describes the project as a study of the gradual spread of monumental forms of Christianity in the 5th…