Corinthian Matters

Category: Photos

  • Marine Life in the Corinthian Gulf

    Kalliope Sarri posted in the Corinthian Studies facebook group a link to the most beautiful scuba images of life aquatic in the Corinthian Gulf. Check them out here.

  • Return of Winter Landscape

    If you have only visited Greece in May to September, the green growth of winter may be surprising.  Note the clouds in the second photo.  Photos by D. Pettegrew November 28 and December 7, 2004. 

  • Corinth Canal

    Photos by David Pettegrew and Kate Pettegrew on July 1, 2007.  Low walls visible in the second photo, bungee jumper in third, climbing holes for workers in fourth.

  • Hexamilion

    The trans-Isthmus “Hexamilion” wall, running 7 kilometers across the Isthmus of Corinth, constructed in the 5th century AD, with later episodic refurbishments.  In the day of its construction, it must have fundamentally altered the human landscape, the regional economy, and the local demands for labor.  Photos by D. Pettegrew 2005 and 2007.      …

  • The Olive Harvest

    Harvesting olives with Nikos Gdysis of Gemelos Taverna, November 16, 2004.  Photos by D. Pettegrew.

  • A Corinthian Valley in November

    The valley of Lakka Skoutara in the southern Corinthia.  Photos by D. Pettegrew, November 18, 2004.    

  • Beachrock

    “Beachrock” at the western entrance to the Corinth canal, covering the loading platform of the diolkos road.  The authors of the Lechaion tsunami theory (discussed yesterday) have suggested this rock represents “calcified tsunamigenic deposit” caused by a tsunami sometime after the first century AD (Hadler et al. 2011, p. 72).  The beachrock runs 300 m…

  • A Southern View of the Isthmus

    Lychnari Bay and Vayia in the southern Corinthia, with the flattened Isthmus against an abrupt limestone mountain (Gerania) in the distance (Photo D. Pettegrew 6-29-09)

  • Life Among Ruins

    The Department of Archaeology at the University of Amsterdam recently launched a new website “Byzantine & Ottoman Archaeology: Digging up answers in the Medieval Mediterranean”  as the official site for their VIDI-Research Project on material culture in the eastern Mediterranean after antiquity.  The project researchers Joanita Vroom, Fotini Kondyli,  and Yasemin Bagci are examining the…

  • An Early Summer Evening

    Photo taken by D. Pettegrew June 1, 2011.