Corinthian Matters

Category: Isthmus

  • Views from Mt. Oneion

    I was twice dragged up to the top of Mt. Oneion, the range that marks the visual southern boundary of the Isthmus.  While Dimitri Nakassis and I were walking survey teams around the plain of the Isthmus in 2000 and 2001, Bill Caraher was driving all over the eastern Corinthia doing “extensive survey” in remote…

  • More Eastern Korinthia Survey Photos: Kromna and Rhyto

    I continue to upload scanned slides from the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey.  Today’s installments include A tomb near the village of Rhytoin the southern Corinthia The site of Kromna between the village of Hexamilia and Kyras Vrysi (Isthmia) Thanks to Cindi Tomes of Messiah College’s Faculty Services for scanning these. Eroded Roman tomb at Kromna.…

  • Sites of the Eastern Korinthia Survey

    I have uploaded more scans of slides form the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey.  These images show areas and sites documented by EKAS between 1999 and 2003.  Some of these, like the quarries, Kromna, and Perdhikaria, were known archaeological sites, and our work documented a new range of activities in the area.  Others like various Roman-Byzantine…

  • Photos of the Eastern Korinthia Survey

    It was unfortunate that I took all of my photos of the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey using a camera loaded with print or slide film.  The survey was carried between 1998 and 2003, a time span corresponding with the rapid replacement of film cameras with digital cameras.  We used digital cameras every year of the…

  • Bungee into the Abyss

    If it looks unsafe, it probably is.  That’s what I have often thought while watching extreme sport types jump 80 meters head first into the Corinth Canal.  For 60 Euro you can pay Zulu Bungy to jump from the old national road bridge and hang suspended above the canal for a couple of minutes.  It…

  • The Diolkos – Two New Articles

    When I was a PhD student at OSU, there was a common joke among the grad students that if you had arrived somehow at a good dissertation topic, writer beware: the study had probably already been written in German.  And so, when I was wrapping up the revisions of a forthcoming article called simply “The…

  • An Account of Travel to the Corinthia: Major Sir Greenville Temple (1836)

    While conducting research on the diolkos of Corinth last year, I discovered the enormous corpus of scanned texts in Google Books relating travel accounts to Greece and the Aegean from the late 18th to 20th centuries.  These searchable texts offer the researcher an easy way of measuring historical interest in ancient landscapes.  I was interested…

  • Corinth in Context at Society of Biblical Literature, London 2011

    Last week I spent conferencing in London at the international meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature.  With the exception of one rainy day, the weather was cool and beautiful.  My own visit was improved by the presence of my wife, Kate, and toddler son James, who ensured that I spent more time at London’s…

  • SBL – Day 3-4

    More good 1 and 2 corinthians papers today at the SBL International: Kar-Yong Lim, Seminari Theoloji Malaysia, “Paul’s Use of Temple Imagery in the Corinthian Correspondence and the Formation of Christian Identity: A Contextual Reading from the Perspectives of A Chinese Malaysian” Jeremy Punt, Universiteit van Stellenbosch – University of Stellenbosch, “Foolish Rhetoric in 1…

  • SBL International – London, July 4-7

    The Society of Biblical Literature has posted its schedule of papers for the international conference in London, July 4-7, 2011.  There are three sessions that focus entirely on Corinth and many scattered papers that touch on Corinthian matters.  Clicking on the links below will pull up the abstracts from the SBL website.   First, the…