Corinthian Matters

Category: Periods, Greek (Geometric-Hellenistic)

  • Dropping into Ancient Corinth (the CyArk and Google Partnership)

    Dropping into Ancient Corinth (the CyArk and Google Partnership)

    Years ago, a visitor to ancient Corinth (and other sites of Greece) had immediate access to most of the archaeological remains within the site. One could stand directly next to one of the standing columns of the Temple of Apollo, or even climb within the Fountain of Peirene, as I know a group of university…

  • Ancient City: Application of Novel Geo-Information Technologies in Ancient Greek Urban Studies

    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)…

  • 2015 Publications in Corinthian Studies: Prehistoric-Hellenistic Periods

    This is the first of a series of 5 bibliographic posts related in some way to Corinthian scholarship published or digitized in 2015. As with my series last year, I have used Zotero’s Report feature to export bibliography to PDF so that the listing includes URLs and abstracts. This list is certainly not exhaustive, and is surely incomplete, but it…

  • Bridge of the Untiring Sea (Gebhard and Gregory, eds.)

    I finally have my hands on Bridge of the Untiring Sea: the Corinthian Isthmus from Prehistory to Late Antiquity, fresh off the press (December 2015) from the Princeton office of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. I wrote briefly about this forthcoming book in June (here and here). The Bridge has been a long time in the making. It…

  • Archaeological Reports (Journal of Hellenic Studies)

    The 2014 volume of Archaeological Reports is now out and promises some interesting new studies of the northeast Peloponnese and Greece. If you’re not familiar with Archaeological Reports, the journal is published by the British School at Athens and offers “the only account of recent archaeological work in Greece published in English.” Table of Contents:…