Corinthian Matters

Category: Territory

  • Corinthiaka at the AIA / APA 2012

    The Archaeological Institute of America and the American Philological Association have posted preliminary programs for their annual meetings in Philadelphia, January 5-8, 2012.  As in last year’s program, Corinthiaka are covered through AIA / APA papers and posters.  The following list was generated from paper titles alone and will grow as the abstracts go live. …

  • The Corinthia from the Air

    If you hadn’t noticed, views of the Corinthia from the air are increasingly available on the web.  When I first started teaching years ago and wanted to project an image of the Isthmus for a class, I relied on my grainy slide photos taken on flights out of Athens.  But over the last decade, camera…

  • A Book about the Diolkos

    I first discovered Apostolos Papafotiou’s Ο δίολκος στον ισθμό της Κορίνθου (=”The Diolkos on the Isthmus of Corinth”), Corinth 2007 (ISBN 960-87108-9-8), while browsing Corinthian history books at bookstore in New Corinth.  Because I don’t like to pay over $100 for a book, I delayed until the following summer to convince myself that it was…

  • Ano Vayia and Lychnari Tower

    The Saronic coast of the southern Corinthia provides some of the most beautiful views of Corinthian territory.  It also provided for the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey some of its most spectacular finds.  One week spent in the area of Kalamianos near the harbor village of Korphos, for example, led to the discover of a major…

  • Views from Mt. Oneion

    I was twice dragged up to the top of Mt. Oneion, the range that marks the visual southern boundary of the Isthmus.  While Dimitri Nakassis and I were walking survey teams around the plain of the Isthmus in 2000 and 2001, Bill Caraher was driving all over the eastern Corinthia doing “extensive survey” in remote…

  • Corinthiaka

    I take a break from uploading images of the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey to drop some Corinthiaka that have come through my feed in the last month.  Matt Malcolm at cryptotheology has recent posts on John Chrysostom and 1 Corinthians, part 1 of a review of Barnett’s The Corinthian Question (with comments), and the interpretation…

  • More Eastern Korinthia Survey Photos: Kromna and Rhyto

    I continue to upload scanned slides from the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey.  Today’s installments include A tomb near the village of Rhytoin the southern Corinthia The site of Kromna between the village of Hexamilia and Kyras Vrysi (Isthmia) Thanks to Cindi Tomes of Messiah College’s Faculty Services for scanning these. Eroded Roman tomb at Kromna.…

  • Sites of the Eastern Korinthia Survey

    I have uploaded more scans of slides form the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey.  These images show areas and sites documented by EKAS between 1999 and 2003.  Some of these, like the quarries, Kromna, and Perdhikaria, were known archaeological sites, and our work documented a new range of activities in the area.  Others like various Roman-Byzantine…

  • Photos of the Eastern Korinthia Survey

    It was unfortunate that I took all of my photos of the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey using a camera loaded with print or slide film.  The survey was carried between 1998 and 2003, a time span corresponding with the rapid replacement of film cameras with digital cameras.  We used digital cameras every year of the…

  • Kouroi arrive in Corinth

    When I was in Corinth in early June, a news item going around the village was the imminent arrival of Archaic-period kouroi to the archaeological museum at Corinth.  The statues, depicted in the images below (from Greek Reporter and Athens News), were found in Klenies (see map below), a village of the southern Corinthia near…