Corinthian Matters

Category: Classical

  • 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…

  • Federalism in Greek Antiquity (Beck and Funke, eds.)

    Federalism in Greek Antiquity (Beck and Funke, eds.)

    This new edited collection of essays on federalism and interstate interactions in Greek antiquity caught my eye when it was published late in the fall: Beck, Hans, and Peter Funke, eds.. Federalism in Greek Antiquity. Cambridge University Press, 2015. As the publisher page notes, this is the first comprehensive study of the subject since the publication of…

  • Chemical and Microscopic Analysis of Attic and Corinthian pottery (Chaviara and Aloupi)

    Chemical and Microscopic Analysis of Attic and Corinthian pottery (Chaviara and Aloupi)

    This article (in press) by Artemi Chaviara and Eleni Aloupi in The Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, examines the chemical and microscopic properties of black-glaze vessels from the Athenian Acropolis, Boeotia, and the potter’s quarter in Corinth. I tried to access the piece via my institution’s website but ran into problems. For now, I can only copy the metadata and abstract below:…

  • AncientCity – Urbanization through Geoinformatics

    AncientCity – Urbanization through Geoinformatics

    Updated March 21, 2016 with italicized additions and strikethrough. See also this update. ***************************************************** At the 8th Congress of the Balkan Geophysical Society, held in early October in Chania, Crete, a group of authors presented a paper on a new project called AncientCity – A new Frontier in Ancient Greek Urbanization through Geoinformatics. I don’t see that the project has its own web presence yet,…

  • 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,…

  • Classical Archaeology in Context (Haggis and Antonaccio, eds.)

    This new book published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH should be of wide interest for classical archaeologists who understand how particular contexts, theory, and method frame archaeological research, data, results, and conclusions at the end of the day. As one of the longest-running excavations in the Mediterranean, references to Corinth are plentiful. I am also…

  • 2013-2014 Publications in Corinthian Studies: Prehistoric-Hellenistic Periods

    This is the first in a series of bibliographic posts related to Corinthian scholarship published or digitized in 2013-2014. See yesterday’s post for further information about the sources of this bibliography. I have used Zotero’s Report feature to export bibliography to PDF so that the listing includes URLs and abstracts (when available). This list is certainly not exhaustive, but…

  • Corinthiaka at the AIA Meeting: New Orleans, January 2015

    One of the small benefits of not attending the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America next month is that I will not have to spend Christmas break frantically working on a paper that I was unable to complete during a busy semester. On the other hand, New Orleans in January should be fantastic,…