Corinthian Matters

Category: Isthmus

  • Augustus Neander, on the reason for Paul’s sojourn (1844)

    Last week, I excerpted a text from Lyman Coleman’s historical atlas of the bible (1855) about the Paul’s visit to the “most hopeless city of Corinth.” I decided to trace Coleman’s ideas about Corinth and the consequences of geography. Coleman notes that for his sections on Paul’s travels, he consulted H.B. Hackett’s A Commentary on…

  • Dissertation Corner: A Guide to “Corinth on the Isthmus”

    I recently discovered by accident that my doctoral dissertation on the Late Antique Corinthia was available for free download through OhioLink. When I completed this study in 2006 at Ohio State University, there was concern among graduate students that our university’s decision to disseminate theses and dissertations to the public would jeopardize opportunities for later…

  • Lyman Coleman, on the most hopeless city of Corinth (1855)

    One of the projects I’m working on this year is a study of how ancient and modern writers have interpreted the historical fortunes of Corinth through the lens of its eastern landscape, the Isthmus. How did a land bridge become so consequential for writing the history of the city? It’s a topic I’ve commented on…

  • Isthmia IX now available

    I heard the good news this summer that Joseph Rife’s Isthmia IX: The Roman and Byzantine Graves and Human Remains, was finally available in published form.  The ASCSA website describes the work in these terms: This study describes and interprets the graves and human remains of Roman and Byzantine date recovered by excavation between 1954…

  • Another Article on the Diolkos

    Back in January, I noted another new article on the diolkos of Corinth by Yannis Nakas and D. Koutsoumba forthcoming in the Loutraki volume (more on this soon).  Since then, I’ve been in contact with Yannis Nakas about the piece and his ideas about the diolkos.  Yannis is a maritime archaeologist in Greece and also…

  • The Complete Archaeology of Greece

    John Bintliff’s new tome (May 2012) looks like a serious comprehensive work.  At 544 pages, The Complete Archaeology of Greece: From Hunter-Gatherers to the 20th Century A.D. promises to tell the story of Greek culture from the Paleolithic to the modern era.  It doesn’t get much more comprehensive than this. Here’s the description from the…

  • 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…

  • Dramatic Dog Rescue on the Isthmus

    It doesn’t get much more dramatic than a rescue of a little dog stuck on the walls of the Corinth canal.  Here we have a video of a trapped dog, rappelling firemen, interviews with the owners, interviews with the dog, and comments from the rescue squad.  The story has a happy ending.  As the owner…

  • 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 Scholarship (February)

    Here’s the latest in Corinthian-related scholarship published, presented, or released online in February.  These 13 articles, books, and studies represent about 7% of ca 175 studies that triggered Google Scholar alerts last month.  There are many, many “false positives” that have little to do with ancient or medieval Corinth, or make only passing and insignificant…