Corinthian Matters

Category: Travelers

  • Mapping the Ottomans: Sovereignty, Territory, and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Brummett)

    This new book on the Ottomans published by Cambridge University Press should inform our readings of the sizable corpus of 16th to early 19th century traveler accounts to the Corinthia. The work considers how European maps, travel itineraries, and accounts of the eastern Mediterranean served to appropriate territory and construct an image of the Ottoman against classical and biblical imagery: Brummett, Palmira. Mapping the Ottomans: Sovereignty, Territory, and…

  • Corinthian Scholarship Monthly (December-February). Part 1

    With the end of last semester, holidays, and deadlines, I fell a bit behind on the Corinthian Scholarship Monthly posts. Yesterday I started to dig out, sift through emails, and find the gems in the bunch. This will be the first of two posts on new scholarship that went live in December to February. I’ll…

  • Corinthian Scholarship Monthly (October 2012)

    The latest round-up of digital scholarship and references over the last month. These references are now available with abstracts and tags at the Corinthian Studies Online (Zotero) Library. Diachronic Dillon, Matthew P. J. “Review. The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity. By Stephanie Budin.” The European Legacy 17, no. 6 (2012): 839–839. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10848770.2012.715848 Bronze Age…

  • Corinthian Scholarship (monthly): June-August

    The second installment of Corinth-related scholarship that went digital in June-August. Happy reading! Geology Ford, Mary, Sebastian Rohais, Edward A. Williams, Sylvain Bourlange, David Jousselin, Nicolas Backert, and Fabrice Malartre. “Tectono-sedimentary Evolution of the Western Corinth Rift (Central Greece).” Basin Research (2012). Rathossi, C. E., P. G. Lampropoulou, K. C. Skourlis, and C. G. Katagas.…

  • Another look at Land of Sikyon

    One spring day in 2005, I ran into Yannis Lolos at the Blegen Library in Athens carrying around his recently completed monograph on the history and archaeology of the region of Sikyon, the polis immediately west of Corinth. He told me at the time that the hundreds and hundreds of freshly printed pages in his…

  • Bill Caraher on Lolos’ “Land of Sikyon”

    In mid-March, Bill posted the working draft of a review of Yannis Lolos’ Land of Sikyon, a Hesperia Supplement volume published in 2011 (see sample PDF here).  The “official” review went live today on the BMCR list. Here’s the opening paragraph…read the full review here. “Land of Sikyon is a handsomely produced and impeccably edited…

  • Byzantine Corinth: 2011 Publications (and a note on relative frequency of Corinthiaka)

    In originally separating the recent scholarship on Byzantine-Modern from the 2011  scholarship on Ancient Corinth, I had forgotten that the pickings were so few.  This is a rather sad list (in terms of quantity), and I will combine these three entries in the permanent page for 2011 archaeology and historical publications. Bourbou, Chryssi, Benjamin T.…

  • Corinthian Scholarship (November)

    Hard to believe that December is already here – quite a lot of new scholarship delivered electronically in November.  Bronze Age Erika Weiberg, “The invisible dead : The case of the Argolid and Corinthia during the Early Bronze Age,” in Helen Cavanagh, William Cavanagh and James Roy (eds.), Honouring the Dead in the Peloponnese: Proceedings…

  • 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…