Category: Sites, Urban Center

  • Corinthiaka

    I’ve been cleaning my inbox of alerts this week and have a little bundle of mid-summer Corinthiaka to get out. Here’s some of the latest ephemera from the blogosphere: Archaeology: AIA Site Preservation Grant to Preserve Mycenaean Chamber Tomb at Aidonia (AIA) “Corinth Museum Theft 1990” (Trafficking Culture) New Testament: “Eschatology in the Corinthian Church: Thiselton”  (Cryptotheology) “Erasmus on the…

  • Corinth Excavations, Places and Monuments

    The American School of Classical Studies Excavations at Corinth continues to add digital resources that will be of interest and use to archaeologists, tourists, teachers, preachers, writers, and the broader public. In the past, I’ve covered their Field Trip App, which allows anyone with a mobile phone to take a virtual tour of Ancient Corinth with expert summary descriptions, photos,…

  • American School of Classical Studies Concludes 2015 Season

    The American School of Classical Studies Excavations at Corinth announced on Friday the conclusion to their 2015 season which focused this season on continuing excavation in the Frankish quarters, conservation of the Good Luck mosaic, excavation in the area of South Stoa, 3D scans of the Fountain of Peirene, among others. Here’s the news release…

  • The First Urban Churches: Roman Corinth (In the Works)

    A couple of years ago, I had the good fortune of participating in a session at the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) conference on the theme of Polis and Ekklesia: Investigations of Urban Christianity. The paper I delivered outlined new perspectives on the diolkos and the implications of this research for understanding the commercial backdrop…

  • 2013-2014 Publications in Corinthian Studies: New Testament, Christianity, and Judaism

    This is the fourth and final post in a series of bibliographic releases of new Corinthian scholarship published or digitized in 2013-2014. See this post last last Monday for further information about the sources of this bibliography and instructions for accessing the Zotero database. For earlier releases, see these posts: Prehistoric-Hellenistic Periods Roman Period Byzantine-Modern…

  • Ten Unexpected Stories of Corinthian Archaeology, 2014

    Cozied up at a country house near Granville, Ohio, my family ushered in the new year watching Robert Zemeckis’ Back to the Future II. This movie was a blast from the past. Released in 1989, I was a 15 year old skateboard punk when the film came out, and I distinctly recall conversations with friends…

  • Corinthiaka at the AIA Meeting: New Orleans, January 2015

    One of the small benefits of not attending the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America next month is that I will not have to spend Christmas break frantically working on a paper that I was unable to complete during a busy semester. On the other hand, New Orleans in January should be fantastic,…

  • Roman Tombs in Corinth: Caraher on Walbank on Slane

    If you’re a Corinthiaphile who doesn’t read Bill Caraher’s The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World blog, you should check in on it on occasion. Bill has one of the most successful and consistent blogs on ancient Mediterranean world on the interwebs. He has released insightful, smart, and humorous posts almost every day—minus weekends and holidays—since…

  • Society of Biblical Literature Conference, San Diego, 2014

    I have always been impressed with the enormous output of scholarship directed to understanding biblical literature and backgrounds. In past years, I’ve posted paper titles or abstracts for presentations at the annual and international meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature: Baltimore 2013, Chicago 2012, London 2011, and Atlanta 2010. As Thanksgiving week has just…

  • Ann Brownlee on the Potter’s Quarter

    It must be a sign of the official end of summer in the U.S. that the Penn Museum Blog has been running a series of final field reports on field work and study at archaeological sites in Egypt, Iraq, Italy, Xinjiang, Turkey, and Greece. One of these posts comes from Ann Brownlee, Associate Curator of…