A Resource for the Study of the Corinthia, Greece
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A Corinthian Valley in November
The valley of Lakka Skoutara in the southern Corinthia. Photos by D. Pettegrew, November 18, 2004.
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Gods, games and glass mosaics at the Isthmus (an overview and review of Isthmia)
The Athens News has been running a biweekly column by archaeologist John Leonard about the famous sites of Greece. This week’s piece, “Gods, Games, and Glass Mosaics at the Isthmus,” provides an overview and review of what is now visible at the archaeological site of Isthmia. Here is part of the introduction: “Sometimes, however, certain…
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Going to San Francisco for the Society of Biblical Literature? An Invitation to Contribute
The annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature runs this week from Saturday to Tuesday and will offer more than 50 papers related in some way to the study of Corinth. In August, I posted a comprehensive list of these Corinthiaka papers that deal with, variously, the history and archaeology of the city, the…
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Kostis Kourelis on Byzantium and the Avant Garde
Professor Kostis Kourelis of Franklin and Marshall College will speak today at 4 PM CST on the American School Excavations at Corinth in the 1930s. The presentation at the University of North Dakota is the 2011 Cyprus Research Fund Lecture. As Bill Caraher notes at here, he “will tell the unlikely story of how the…
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Beachrock
“Beachrock” at the western entrance to the Corinth canal, covering the loading platform of the diolkos road. The authors of the Lechaion tsunami theory (discussed yesterday) have suggested this rock represents “calcified tsunamigenic deposit” caused by a tsunami sometime after the first century AD (Hadler et al. 2011, p. 72). The beachrock runs 300 m…
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Did a tsunami destroy ancient Lechaion?
In early July, Andreas Vött and his colleagues announced that sometime in the 6th century AD, a tsunami destroyed ancient Olympia, the famous site of pan-Hellenic athletic contests. In considering recent scholarship on historical tsunamis in the Gulf of Corinth, I pondered here at Corinthianmatters whether there was any evidence for tsunamis in the Corinthia. …
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The Unqualified Apostle
Gary Shogren at JustinofNablus wins the prize for most creative (recent) Apostle-Paul-in-Corinth blog post. In “Dear Paul,” he describes how the apostle failed to satisfy what Corinthian Christians thought most important and would fail to qualify today for the typical ministry job. This post draws from Paul’s own rhetoric in 1 and 2 Corinthians about…
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A Little More on Some Byzantine Pottery from the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey
David Pettegrew and I continue to analyze the Byzantine pottery from the Eastern Corinthia Survey for a short discussion of intensive survey and Byzantine archaeology (see also: Sampling the Byzantine Landscape and Corinth’s Byzantine Countryside). This past week, I did a RBHS (Rim, Base, Handle, Sherd) analysis of the Byzantine sherds from the survey assemblage.…
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What was shipped in Greek amphoras? A reevaluation through DNA analysis
One of the big stories covered by archaeology blogs last month was the announcement that a team of researchers had determined the ancient content of Greek amphoras through the analysis of residual DNA. News of this discovery appeared in this article in Science and this one in Nature, and both summarized a technical article now…
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James Wright appointed as Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
This press release (below) from the American School of Classical Studies at Athens seems appropriate for Corinthianmatters – as the century-old excavation at Corinth falls under the purview of the School, and as James Wright directs the Nemea Valley Archaeological Project. ********************************** PRESS RELEASE: AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS ANNOUNCES THE APPOINTMENT OF…
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