Corinthian Matters

Category: Periods, Hellenistic

  • A New Study of Hellenistic Fine Wares at Corinth

    A New Study of Hellenistic Fine Wares at Corinth

    Each of the 45 individual volumes that make up the Corinth Excavation Series published by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens marks a labor of love, sweat, and tears. There are specific studies that focus on an individual building, such as the Temple of Apollo, the Odeion, or a Roman villa, unearthed through…

  • 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…

  • The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (eds. Eidinow and Kindt)

    Another exciting new Oxford handbook is scheduled for publication next month. The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, edited by Esther Eidinow and Julia Kindt, offers a broad overview of Greek religion from archaic to Hellenistic times, including numerous case studies and some 43 chapters on topics ranging from belief and practice to the deities, daimonic powers,…

  • A Review of Dixon’s Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Corinth, 338-196 BC

    For a first review of Michael Dixon’s new book on Hellenistic Corinth, check out this post from Bill Caraher’s Archaeology of the Mediterranean World blog. Routledge has also posted an interview with Dixon about the book.