Category: Periods, Modern
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The Olive Harvest
Harvesting olives with Nikos Gdysis of Gemelos Taverna, November 16, 2004. Photos by D. Pettegrew.
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Problematizing Peasants in the Corinthian Countryside
As readers of this blog know, David Pettegrew and I are working on a paper on peasants in the Corinthian countryside. We’ll give the paper at the 113th AIA/APA Joint Annual Meeting in early January in Philadelphia (or at least David will!) in a panel organized by Kim Bowes and Cam Grey. I’ve been mulling…
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A Corinthian Valley in November
The valley of Lakka Skoutara in the southern Corinthia. Photos by D. Pettegrew, November 18, 2004.
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Kostis Kourelis on Byzantium and the Avant Garde
Professor Kostis Kourelis of Franklin and Marshall College will speak today at 4 PM CST on the American School Excavations at Corinth in the 1930s. The presentation at the University of North Dakota is the 2011 Cyprus Research Fund Lecture. As Bill Caraher notes at here, he “will tell the unlikely story of how the…
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Antiquities in the Trash
Earlier this week, Facebook friends were circulating and commenting on an article in the Greek newspaper Ekathimerini about the ruin of Greek monuments and sites. In the critical essay, “Greece’s Debt Mirrors Crisis in Cultural Assets,” A. Craig Copetas argues that Greece’s inability to protect and preserve its most important antiquities not only reflects current…
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Oscar Broneer, St. Paul, and Wicked Corinth (and a new blog)
In a recent blog post at Objects-Buildings-Situations, Kostis Kourelis has pointed out that Ohians have the tendency to blog about Greece, and especially post-classical Greece and their experiences with the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. He refers to Bill Caraher’s Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, Katie Rask’s Antiquated Vagaries, and now Dallas DeForest’s…
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The Diolkos Petition
It’s not hard to construct narratives of decline for the paved trans-Isthmus diolkos road. One only has to compare the monument unearthed by N. Verdelis 50 years ago with modern photos of a road sliding into the canal. Indeed, Sophia Loverdou has used the tools of social media to launch a “Save the Diolkos” campaign. …
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Cruising the Canal, Damaging the Diolkos
One of the consequences of spending a summer morning talking with Sophia Loverdou was seeing the diolkos in a whole new light. I had contacted Sophia following the recommendation of a reviewer (on a forthcoming diolkos article) that a woman had launched a crusade to save the diolkos of Corinth. I had seen Sophia’s name…
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A Cruise Ship in the Corinth Canal
In early June I had the chance to visit the Corinth Canal with Sophia Loverdou, the woman who has launched a campaign to save the ancient diolkos (more on that campaign later in the week). As I wrote in this post in late June, she and I toured the part of the diolkos inside Military…
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Corinthiaka
Odds, ends, miscellany and fun: After my post on extreme sports at the Isthmus, I realize I left out the Isthmia Open! Imagine 160 chess players from countries everywhere. I love the choice of venue with its gesture to the ancient games. St. Paul’s Corinth as reality TV show: “But wait–actually, there is a place…
Corinthian Matters 