Category: Territory

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…

July 22, 2011
In the Steps of Pausanias (Photo Gallery)

I recently stumbled across a gallery of digital images called “In the Steps of Pausanias: In Korinthia,” which contains about 500 images related to Korinthiaka. The gallery appears to be growing. This is not your typical “I went to Ancient Corinth and took lots of photos” photo gallery but rather contains images of the sites and…

May 12, 2011
SBL International – London, July 4-7

The Society of Biblical Literature has posted its schedule of papers for the international conference in London, July 4-7, 2011. There are three sessions that focus entirely on Corinth and many scattered papers that touch on Corinthian matters. Clicking on the links below will pull up the abstracts from the SBL website. First, the…

April 21, 2011
Corinthian Scholarship (March 2011)

I stumbled upon a good number of Corinthian papers, presentations, and publications this month that cover topics from Isthmia, Kenchreai, Aphrodite and prostitute, and Paul’s ascent in 2 Cor. 12. First, Corinthian archaeology and history: Anne Pippin Burnett has a piece in GRBS 51 (2011) on Pindar and prostitution at Corinth: “Servants of Peitho: Pindar fr.122 S”…

March 31, 2011
Maps of the Corinthia

Maps of the Corinthia are surprisingly rare via the internet, let alone maps of the ancient Corinthia. A google image search on “Korinthia” or “Corinthia” turns up two dozen very coarse road maps of the northeastern Peloponnese mainly produced or posted by tourist agencies. I have added a new section of this website, Maps of…

March 17, 2011