Corinthian Matters

Category: Digital Corinthia

  • SBL Chicago in a mobile app

    If you’re checking in for information on Corinth sessions at the Society of Biblical Literature conference in Chicago, you might look at my post from September. There you will find paper titles organized by day and time with session numbers. But if you have a mobile device, I’d recommend starting with the SBL conference app.…

  • Corinthiaka at the AIA

    The AIA has posted a preliminary program of the 70+ paper sessions, workshops, and colloquia for the AIA in Seattle in January 2013.  As in previous years (2012, 2011), the Corinthia makes a good showing. If you’re going to the AIA and want to blog or tweet or report on the conference (or parts of…

  • Hesperia in Zotero: a bibliographic resource

    In June, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens announced that it was releasing bibliographic citation data for more than 1,500 articles published in its journal Hesperia via the bibliographic resource Zotero. As publications director, Andrew Reinhard, explained this decision: “Researchers who use Zotero while writing articles and books that reference Hesperia articles can download…

  • Recent Corinthian Archaeology News and Blogs

    I repost below some stories, videos, and news related to the archaeology and history of the Corinth since spring. Some will be old news but may be of use for those who have missed the stories. News and Announcements from the American School of Classical Studies at Athens Ian McPhee and Elizabeth Pemberton’s Late Classical…

  • 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…

  • Corinth on Academia

    According to its website, Academia.edu is a growing community of 1,700,000 academics. While the Corinth contingent is a tiny group among this number, Academia is the sort of social media site with the potential to connect and share new research, working, and forthcoming papers on the Corinthia. The handful of papers posted so far include…

  • 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.

  • Corinthian Studies: A New Facebook Group

    Corinth groups are nothing new on Facebook.  Back in August 2007, when FB was only three years old and there were only 30 million users, a Korinthos group was launched as a meeting place for anyone with interest in Corinth.  The following February, OSU Excavations at Isthmia launched their own group.  And in 2010, a…

  • Corinth Bibliographies

    If you do not know about the Ancient World Open Bibliographies blog, you’re missing out on an excellent resource for bibliographic information related to all aspects of antiquity.  Founded and operated by Phoebe Acheson and Chuck Jones, the purpose of the blog is to gather “bibliographies about subjects relevant to studies of the ancient world…

  • Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society

    Byzantinists were stunned last week by the announcement that the Christian Archaeological Society had launched a digital version of its journal Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, with some open access material.  The announcement from the journal’s website: The Christian Archaeological Society (ChAE) is pleased to announce the launch of the online edition of the…