A Resource for the Study of the Corinthia, Greece
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Two Corinthian Christmases
Happy Holidays from Corinthian Matters! Surprising amounts of Corinthiaka in my feeds over the last few days. Here are two very different Corinthian Christmases, an impressionistic rumination of modern Corinth in terms of its ancient classical image, the second a religious reflection on 1 Corinthians 13. The first describes Henry Miller’s and Lawrence Durrell’s visit…
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Three Reflections on 1 Corinthians
Among the fastest growing bodies of digital data related to Corinthian studies are the texts, audio files, and videos of homilies, sermons, and commentary on the New Testament letters of 1 and 2 Corinthians. The former, especially, provides numerous inlets for Christian preaching and teaching and connection to ‘real-world’ issues, for it discusses such varied…
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Corinth at the Tate
Museums are increasingly posting collections of images and artwork online which, on occasion, deal with Corinthian topics. In the midst of the end-of-semester madness, I learned of Tate’s extensive online collection of art through alerts sparked by the posting of Corinthian images on a new beta site (to replace its current digital collection). Some interesting…
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Return of Winter Landscape
If you have only visited Greece in May to September, the green growth of winter may be surprising. Note the clouds in the second photo. Photos by D. Pettegrew November 28 and December 7, 2004.
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Map of the Corinthia
One of the most common ways that people find Corinthian Matters is through Google searches for good maps of the Corinthia. I’ve posted several maps here with the promise that I will add more at a later point. I noticed this Corinthian map in English was recently posted in Wikimedia Commons and is available for…
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Barbarians at the Gate
One reason I love Corinthian Matters is that David Pettegrew’s loyal bots constantly crawl the web looking for new academic articles on Corinth. As anyone who attempts to keep abreast of new scholarship on any topic knows, it is almost impossible to do so without some loyal human and software allies.Recently, he brought to my…
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Corinth Canal
Photos by David Pettegrew and Kate Pettegrew on July 1, 2007. Low walls visible in the second photo, bungee jumper in third, climbing holes for workers in fourth.
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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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Roman Colonies in the First Century of their Foundation
Readers interested in the Roman colony of Corinth and questions of Romanization and colonial identity should find food for thought in Roman Colonies in the First Century of their Foundation, Oxford 2011: Oxbow Books. The work (ed. Rebecca Sweetman) includes chapters on Corinth (by Paul Scotton), Knossos, Nikopolis, and Butrint, among others. Here is Christopher…
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The Crazy Project – Canal Istanbul
Last spring Turkish news agencies covered reports and rumors about a new canal proposed somewhere in the vicinity of Istanbul that would connect the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara. The reports referred to the speech made by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in late April as part of his reelection as Prime Minister of Turkey. …
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