Corinthian Matters

Category: Periods, Archaic

  • Ancient City: Application of Novel Geo-Information Technologies in Ancient Greek Urban Studies

    Ancient City: Application of Novel Geo-Information Technologies in Ancient Greek Urban Studies

    I received an email from Jamie Donati who kindly shared with me more information about the Ancient City project and website, which provides the: aims and scope of the project (including digitization, remote sensing, geophysical mapping, GIS analysis, and dissemination) archaeological sites of the Peloponnese under study technical reports about geophysical survey and remote sensing presentations and publications (with available downloads)…

  • 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,…

  • Archaeological Reports (Journal of Hellenic Studies)

    The 2014 volume of Archaeological Reports is now out and promises some interesting new studies of the northeast Peloponnese and Greece. If you’re not familiar with Archaeological Reports, the journal is published by the British School at Athens and offers “the only account of recent archaeological work in Greece published in English.” Table of Contents:…