Corinthian Matters

A Resource for the Study of the Corinthia, Greece

  • The Isthmus and the Consequences of Geography

    I returned yesterday evening from the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and American Academy of Religion. I’ll write more about the  sessions on Roman Corinth tomorrow. For now, I post below (via my Scribd account) a draft of the paper I gave on the diolkos. As the paper was a summary of recent…

  • New perspectives on the diolkos

    I’m pretty jazzed about the Society of Biblical Literature Conference in Chicago. I not only get to see some old friends in and out of the conference, but I hope to meet some of the scholars whose work I regularly run across in my monthly CSM entries. I’m also looking forward to the double session…

  • SBL Chicago in a mobile app

    If you’re checking in for information on Corinth sessions at the Society of Biblical Literature conference in Chicago, you might look at my post from September. There you will find paper titles organized by day and time with session numbers. But if you have a mobile device, I’d recommend starting with the SBL conference app.…

  • Corinthiaka at the AIA

    The AIA has posted a preliminary program of the 70+ paper sessions, workshops, and colloquia for the AIA in Seattle in January 2013.  As in previous years (2012, 2011), the Corinthia makes a good showing. If you’re going to the AIA and want to blog or tweet or report on the conference (or parts of…

  • 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…

  • Zotero: A New Resource for Corinthian Studies

    Over the last week I had the chance to spend some quality time developing Corinthian Studies resources in and with Zotero. If you’re out of the loop, Zotero is a tool for collecting, storing, managing, and sharing bibliography. It is not unlike EndNote although there are some key differences between Zotero and EndNote, both positive and negative. Zotero…

  • Corinthian Scholarship Monthly (Sept 2012)

    The latest round up of scholarship relevant to Corinth posted online in the last month. Archaic-Classical Corinth Greco, Giovanna, Ferrara, Bianca, and Tomeo, Antonella. “South-western Area of the Forum of Cumae. Analysis of Fabrics and  Pottery Productions.” Rendiconti Online Della Società Geologica Italiana 21 (2012): 753–755. Greco, Giovanna, Paternoster, Giovanni, Ferrara, Bianca, Franco, Marianna, and…

  • Conybeare and Howson, on the True and Faithful Representation of the Apostle (1852)

    For Friday’s picture of Corinth, I offer another vision from 19th century New Testament scholars. This one comes from W.J. Conybeare and Howson’s The Life and Epistles of St. Paul (1852), a major work of biography in its day and a source for Coleman’s sketch of a “most hopeless city” posted two weeks ago. Conybeare…

  • Hesperia in Zotero: a bibliographic resource

    In June, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens announced that it was releasing bibliographic citation data for more than 1,500 articles published in its journal Hesperia via the bibliographic resource Zotero. As publications director, Andrew Reinhard, explained this decision: “Researchers who use Zotero while writing articles and books that reference Hesperia articles can download…

  • SBL Chicago, Nov. 16-20

    I had a chance to crash a session of the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Conference a few years ago on the tail end of a meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research. SBL is vast. As the conference website notes, it represents “the largest gathering of biblical scholars in the world.…

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