Category: Video
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Open Meeting of the ASCSA–March 9 Videocast
The open meeting of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens will be streamed online tomorrow, March 9, at 7:00 PM (12:00 EST). Director Jack L. Davis will present a lecture on “The Work of the School in 2011.” This should include some Corinthiaka. Clemente Marconi will follow with a lecture on archaeological investigations…
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Touring the Corinth Canal
As my next installment in this canal-themed week, I include below three of my favorite video tours of the Corinth Canal. Each provides great glimpses of geological stratification, the remnants of low walls that are mostly eroding into the water, the rail and auto bridges, the rise and fall of elevation, and the vegetation growing…
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Glider Flights over the Isthmus
The revolution of YouTube and video sharing has ushered in a whole new world of viewing the Corinthia. Already hundreds of videos can be found online related to the site of ancient Corinth—too many, in fact, to be useful to a person interested in ancient Corinth. I plan at some point to do a series…
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Some Perspective on American Excavations in Corinth: Byzantium and the Avant Garde
I couldn’t make it last week to Grand Forks to hear Franklin & Marshall College professor Kostis Kourelis speak on the topic of Byzantium and the Avant Garde. Thanks to Bill Caraher and the Center for Instructional and Learning Technologies at the University of North Dakota for streaming the lecture live. The video, audio, and…
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SUPing the Corinth Canal
This clip on the “newest sport of SUP” was the most interesting new canal water sport video to appear in my Google Alerts this week. (I get more than one might expect). It must have been Strabo who said “The width of the Isthmus at the “Diolkos,” where the people paddle from one sea to the other, is…
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More Extreme Sports at the Isthmus
There is something fitting about staging extreme sports at the Isthmus today. Perhaps it has something to do with ancient attempts to canalize the Isthmus, or drag ships over it, or build big fortification walls across it—all heroic and incredible feats. Or perhaps it has something to do with the associations with the Pan-Hellenic festival…
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Bungee into the Abyss
If it looks unsafe, it probably is. That’s what I have often thought while watching extreme sport types jump 80 meters head first into the Corinth Canal. For 60 Euro you can pay Zulu Bungy to jump from the old national road bridge and hang suspended above the canal for a couple of minutes. It…
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Corinthiaka
A few Corinthiaka that have come through Google updates over the last couple of weeks: The Corinth Canal needs urgent work (from Athens News) The “Diolkos for 1500 Years” video will be featured this week at the 12th International Meeting of Archaeological Films. See this link for a summary. The Hellenic Foundation for Culture notes…
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St. Paul’s Corinth (A Music Video)
I think Matt Malcolm may be the first to put together a music video on Corinth of Paul’s day. As he notes in this blog, I’ve just put together a short video, touching on a few highlights of 1 Corinthians, as illuminated by ancient locations and literature. It even includes a slightly saucy section, so…
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Corinthiaka
The latest Corinthiaka for this cold Monday morning: (via Matt Malcolm’s blog) A conference on May 14 at Macquarie University on the theme of “Corinth – Paul, People and Politics,” sponsored by the Society for the Study of Early Christianity. A seminar (May 12) in advance of the conference on the theme of “The Economy…
Corinthian Matters 