Corinthian Matters

Category: Roman

  • A Coin Hoard at Lechaion is not the Real Story

    A Coin Hoard at Lechaion is not the Real Story

    Some more Corinthian clickbait hit us last week in a series of news articles about a coin hoard from Lechaion. We have heard quite a bit in the past about the Lechaion Harbor Project (LHP), a Danish and Greek operation to document the underwater remains at Lechaion since 2013. Their press releases, which come at the…

  • 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…