Corinthian Matters

Category: Periods

  • Recent Corinthian Archaeology News and Blogs

    I repost below some stories, videos, and news related to the archaeology and history of the Corinth since spring. Some will be old news but may be of use for those who have missed the stories. News and Announcements from the American School of Classical Studies at Athens Ian McPhee and Elizabeth Pemberton’s Late Classical…

  • A New Roman Tomb in Corinth

    Construction activities across Corinth’s coastal plain and Isthmus  have frequently turned up spectacular remains of the city’s Greek and Roman past. Large-scale construction projects like the highways and rails especially have generated discoveries and led to salvage excavations. While salvage excavation employ methods that are not ideal, they do generate discoveries that end up in…

  • Corinthian Scholarship (monthly): June-August

    The second installment of Corinth-related scholarship that went digital in June-August. Happy reading! Geology Ford, Mary, Sebastian Rohais, Edward A. Williams, Sylvain Bourlange, David Jousselin, Nicolas Backert, and Fabrice Malartre. “Tectono-sedimentary Evolution of the Western Corinth Rift (Central Greece).” Basin Research (2012). Rathossi, C. E., P. G. Lampropoulou, K. C. Skourlis, and C. G. Katagas.…

  • Corinthian Scholarship (monthly): March-May

    Here is the first installment of Corinth-related scholarship, or scholarship discussing Corinth, which appeared in digital form in March to May. I will post the second installment for June-August on Friday. [Reposting this at 11:00 as I accidentally deleted the original] Diachronic Francis, J.e. “Experiments with an Old Ceramic Beehive.” Oxford Journal of Archaeology 31,…

  • Isthmia IX now available

    I heard the good news this summer that Joseph Rife’s Isthmia IX: The Roman and Byzantine Graves and Human Remains, was finally available in published form.  The ASCSA website describes the work in these terms: This study describes and interprets the graves and human remains of Roman and Byzantine date recovered by excavation between 1954…

  • Historical Maps via Trove

    Trove, the National Library of Australia, provides a search engine and metadata for a wide range of textual, audio, and visual sources. Searching by the subjects “Corinth” and “Corinthe” pulls up numerous records for books, pictures, and articles. While most of the bibliography are common to other databases like Worldcat or Google Scholar, I did…

  • 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…

  • Corinth, Christian Encyclopedia 1866

    For this Friday photo blog, I direct the viewer to this steel plate engraving from James Gardner’s The Christian Cyclopedia, or A Repertory of Biblical and Theological Literature, published in London 1866. The image, posted by Andy Brill here on flickr shows village of Corinth from the west, with the Temple of Apollo on a…

  • 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…

  • The Chlamydatus of Corinth

    In the most recent Hesperia, Amelia Brown has offered an intriguing article on a significant group of Late Roman portrait statues (“Last Men Standing: Chlamydatus Protraits and Public Life in Late Antique Corinth,” Hesperia 81 (2012), 141-176). Chlamydatus statues of Corinth depict men wearing the “distinctive long cloak or chlamys” and this dress typically associates…