Category: Diachronic

  • Another look at Land of Sikyon

    One spring day in 2005, I ran into Yannis Lolos at the Blegen Library in Athens carrying around his recently completed monograph on the history and archaeology of the region of Sikyon, the polis immediately west of Corinth. He told me at the time that the hundreds and hundreds of freshly printed pages in his…

  • Bill Caraher on Lolos’ “Land of Sikyon”

    In mid-March, Bill posted the working draft of a review of Yannis Lolos’ Land of Sikyon, a Hesperia Supplement volume published in 2011 (see sample PDF here).  The “official” review went live today on the BMCR list. Here’s the opening paragraph…read the full review here. “Land of Sikyon is a handsomely produced and impeccably edited…