Corinthian Matters

A Resource for the Study of the Corinthia, Greece

  • Isthmia IX now available

    I heard the good news this summer that Joseph Rife’s Isthmia IX: The Roman and Byzantine Graves and Human Remains, was finally available in published form.  The ASCSA website describes the work in these terms: This study describes and interprets the graves and human remains of Roman and Byzantine date recovered by excavation between 1954…

  • Corinth Excavations 1898

    A couple of updated images from a century ago have recently been posted at the wikipedia site for the Corinth Excavations.  This one titled “Corinth excavation view 1898” from AJA 1898, with a plan of the village to accompany it.

  • Historical Maps via Trove

    Trove, the National Library of Australia, provides a search engine and metadata for a wide range of textual, audio, and visual sources. Searching by the subjects “Corinth” and “Corinthe” pulls up numerous records for books, pictures, and articles. While most of the bibliography are common to other databases like Worldcat or Google Scholar, I did…

  • A Week in the Life of Corinth

    Judging from blogosphere traffic, the hit book on Corinth this summer was an historical fiction about Nicanor, a Corinthian of the mid-1st century, who encounters Paul the apostle and becomes a Christian. I noted this book by Ben Witherington III on this blog back in May, and I’ve continued to see reviews and summaries over…

  • 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…

  • Blogosphere: The Apostle Paul’s Corinth

    Google alerts picks up about 20-30 new sites / blogs / videos each day reflecting, commenting, alluding to, talking about, and preaching through the Corinthian letters. Here’s a small sample from the blogosphere this summer: Michael Bird’s reflections on Brian Rosner’s “The Missionary Character of 1 Corinthians” (and giving God the glory) “Outline of 2 Corinthians…

  • Corinth, Christian Encyclopedia 1866

    For this Friday photo blog, I direct the viewer to this steel plate engraving from James Gardner’s The Christian Cyclopedia, or A Repertory of Biblical and Theological Literature, published in London 1866. The image, posted by Andy Brill here on flickr shows village of Corinth from the west, with the Temple of Apollo on a…

  • Corinth on Academia

    According to its website, Academia.edu is a growing community of 1,700,000 academics. While the Corinth contingent is a tiny group among this number, Academia is the sort of social media site with the potential to connect and share new research, working, and forthcoming papers on the Corinthia. The handful of papers posted so far include…

  • Blogosphere: Corinthia

    A frequent sort of blog that regularly appear in my google alerts are travel accounts of visits to Ancient Corinth. Most of these cover familiar ground and are most useful for good photos of Corinth, the Corinthian landscape, and the archaeological remains. Here is a sample of summer entries: An aggregate collection of photos of…

  • Peloponnesian Fires

    Another round of summer fires in the Peloponnese including the Corinthia. Here are some of the recent headlines: “Fires still Blazing in Rethymno and Corinth” (Athens News) “Southern Greece Fires Close Highways” (CBS) “Wildfire on Greek Island of Kos Forces Evacuation” (NBC) with images of the fires near the village of Spathovouni south of Corinth.…

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