Corinthian Matters

Category: Sites, Urban Center

  • Corinthian Scholarship (September)

    Archaic-Hellenistic Corinthiaka in discussions of Pindar: L. Athanassaki and E. Bowie (eds.), Archaic and Classical Choral Song: Performance, Politics and Dissemination (de Gruyter 2011) More Corinthiaka in E. Carney and D. Ogden, Philip II and Alexander the Great: Father and Son, Lives and Afterlives (Oxford 2010) Byzantine Chryssi Bourbou, Benjamin T. Fuller Sandra J. Garvie-Lok, Michael…

  • Histories of Peirene

    There are no monuments of ancient Corinth more famous and iconic than the Fountain of Peirene.  Any modern visitor who has wandered among the ruins will likely have shot a photo like the one below of the Roman spring facade and court.  And anyone who walks into a tourist shop will have seen plenty of…

  • Corinthian Sites in Google Earth and Map

    Yesterday I discussed a number of resources for viewing Corinthian territory from the air.  Some of the same resources also provide incredible views of the archaeological sites of the Corinthia.  This can be especially valuable if you want to view a site from a bird’s eye perspective.  It is possible to capture a photo of…

  • Corinthiaka

    The latest Corinthiaka appearing in my google alerts and blog subscriptions The American School of Classical Studies has posted a save-the-date for a C.K. Williams lecture on Corinth next may. From Athens News: Wildfires in Achaia, Corinth A new Corinth entry published in About.com that could be expanded to incorporate more archaeological evidence. The best…

  • Corinthian Scholarship (August 2011)

    Archaic-Hellenistic: Corinth gets some attention in the newest Mediterranean history book: David Abulafia, The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean, Oxford 2011: Oxford University Press. Also in this book: Victor Davis Hanson (ed.), Makers of Ancient Strategy: From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome, Princeton 2010: Princeton University Press. Late Antiquity …

  • The Search for the Historical Erastus

    In case you missed it, the feast day of St. Erastus, friend and associate of the apostle Paul, came and went three weeks ago in the western church calendar (July 26).  And in case you missed him, Erastus is a relatively minor figure mentioned only three times in the New Testament: 1) In Acts 19.22,…

  • A Roman Road in the Panayia Field

    For most people who visit the site of Ancient Corinth, the Roman forum is the principal (if not only) destination.  Many visitors are unaware of the ancient buildings and ancient spaces scattered about the modern village and enclosed in chain-linked fences.  Temples, tombs, villas, walls, churches, amphitheater all highlight the urban world buried beneath the…

  • Corinthian Scholarship (July 2011)

    Archaic-Hellenistic Corinth D. Obbink and R. Rutherford (eds.), Culture in Pieces: Essays on Ancient Texts in Honour of Peter Parsons, Oxford 2011: Oxford University Press, has several Corinthiaka: a fragment of the archaic poet Eumelus of Corinth, discussions of Pindar’s Thirteenth Olympian and Posidonius of Corinth, a chapter on the Argo adventure J.A. Agnew, J.S.…

  • An Account of Travel to the Corinthia: Major Sir Greenville Temple (1836)

    While conducting research on the diolkos of Corinth last year, I discovered the enormous corpus of scanned texts in Google Books relating travel accounts to Greece and the Aegean from the late 18th to 20th centuries.  These searchable texts offer the researcher an easy way of measuring historical interest in ancient landscapes.  I was interested…

  • Temple of Apollo Photographs at the Benaki Museum

    A recent article from the Greek Reporter highlights the photographic exhibition of James Robertson at the Benaki Museum: James Robertson was one of the first prominent traveler-photographers to depict scenes of mid-nineteenth century Greece. Of Scottish descent, he has been identified as the engraver James Robertson, who worked in London around 1830. He first settled…