Category: Hellenistic
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Corinthian Scholarship (November)
Hard to believe that December is already here – quite a lot of new scholarship delivered electronically in November. Bronze Age Erika Weiberg, “The invisible dead : The case of the Argolid and Corinthia during the Early Bronze Age,” in Helen Cavanagh, William Cavanagh and James Roy (eds.), Honouring the Dead in the Peloponnese: Proceedings…
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Sarah James on Hellenistic Pottery at Corinth
Visitors to this site may be aware that we maintain a running list of Corinthian archaeology and history dissertations completed over the last decade. The American School Excavations in Ancient Corinth website also regularly features young scholars who are either working on dissertations related to the urban center or have recently finished theses. From these…
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Going to San Francisco for the Society of Biblical Literature? An Invitation to Contribute
The annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature runs this week from Saturday to Tuesday and will offer more than 50 papers related in some way to the study of Corinth. In August, I posted a comprehensive list of these Corinthiaka papers that deal with, variously, the history and archaeology of the city, the…
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What was shipped in Greek amphoras? A reevaluation through DNA analysis
One of the big stories covered by archaeology blogs last month was the announcement that a team of researchers had determined the ancient content of Greek amphoras through the analysis of residual DNA. News of this discovery appeared in this article in Science and this one in Nature, and both summarized a technical article now…
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Corinthian Scholarship (October)
Bronze Age A recent M.S. thesis on the site of Kalamianos in the the southern Corinthia: some beautiful images of the site: Peter Dao, “Marine Geophysical and Geomorphic Survey of Submerged Bronze Age Shorelines and Anchorage sites at Kalamianos (Korphos, Greece),” M.S. Thesis, McMaster University 2011. Archaic-Hellenistic Some Corinthian B amphoras in: Brendan P. Foley,…
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Corinthiaka at the AIA / APA 2012
The Archaeological Institute of America and the American Philological Association have posted preliminary programs for their annual meetings in Philadelphia, January 5-8, 2012. As in last year’s program, Corinthiaka are covered through AIA / APA papers and posters. The following list was generated from paper titles alone and will grow as the abstracts go live. …
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Corinthian Scholarship (September)
Archaic-Hellenistic Corinthiaka in discussions of Pindar: L. Athanassaki and E. Bowie (eds.), Archaic and Classical Choral Song: Performance, Politics and Dissemination (de Gruyter 2011) More Corinthiaka in E. Carney and D. Ogden, Philip II and Alexander the Great: Father and Son, Lives and Afterlives (Oxford 2010) Byzantine Chryssi Bourbou, Benjamin T. Fuller Sandra J. Garvie-Lok, Michael…
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Histories of Peirene
There are no monuments of ancient Corinth more famous and iconic than the Fountain of Peirene. Any modern visitor who has wandered among the ruins will likely have shot a photo like the one below of the Roman spring facade and court. And anyone who walks into a tourist shop will have seen plenty of…
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Corinthian Scholarship (August 2011)
Archaic-Hellenistic: Corinth gets some attention in the newest Mediterranean history book: David Abulafia, The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean, Oxford 2011: Oxford University Press. Also in this book: Victor Davis Hanson (ed.), Makers of Ancient Strategy: From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome, Princeton 2010: Princeton University Press. Late Antiquity …
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Ano Vayia and Lychnari Tower
The Saronic coast of the southern Corinthia provides some of the most beautiful views of Corinthian territory. It also provided for the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey some of its most spectacular finds. One week spent in the area of Kalamianos near the harbor village of Korphos, for example, led to the discover of a major…
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