A Resource for the Study of the Corinthia, Greece
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Sampling the Byzantine Landscape
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working with David Pettegrew on a short paper that considers the role of intensive pedestrian survey in documenting and creating Byzantine landscapes in the countryside of Corinth. One of the challenges of this analysis is our scatters of Byzantine pottery tend to be rather small and sometimes…
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Bibliography of the Kenchreai Cemetery Project
Since Monday’s post about the work of the Kenchreai Cemetery and Excavation Project, I heard from Dr. Joseph Rife, who kindly sent me a bibliography of the project’s publications. Photo of Kenchreai harbor, the Koutsongila ridge, and Saronic coastline from Stanatopi The work of the project has appeared in three dozen presentations at various universities,…
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Corinthiaka at the AIA / APA 2012
The Archaeological Institute of America and the American Philological Association have posted preliminary programs for their annual meetings in Philadelphia, January 5-8, 2012. As in last year’s program, Corinthiaka are covered through AIA / APA papers and posters. The following list was generated from paper titles alone and will grow as the abstracts go live. …
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“Rife excavates ancient mortuary site”
So The Dartmouth announces a recent lecture by Joseph Rife at Dartmouth College, “Life and Death at a Port in Roman Greece: Recent Investigations at Kenchreai.” In his lecture, Rife drew attention to the material distinctiveness of the Roman town at Kenchreai when compared to Corinth. A few interesting quotes from the news piece: “Civic…
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An Early Summer Evening
Photo taken by D. Pettegrew June 1, 2011.
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Oscar Broneer, St. Paul, and Wicked Corinth (and a new blog)
In a recent blog post at Objects-Buildings-Situations, Kostis Kourelis has pointed out that Ohians have the tendency to blog about Greece, and especially post-classical Greece and their experiences with the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. He refers to Bill Caraher’s Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, Katie Rask’s Antiquated Vagaries, and now Dallas DeForest’s…
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Corinth’s Byzantine Countryside
The distribution of Byzantine sites in Corinth’s immediate hinterland is poorly known. No Byzantine monuments exist in the Isthmia valley immediately to the east of the City of Corinth in contrast to the numerous Byzantine churches discovered during the early phases of excavation of the city center or the cluster of standing churches around the…
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Other Byzantine Bodies
When most of us think of the Byzantine body today, we image the ethereal bodies that grace the walls of painted churches, the emaciated bodies of the Byzantine ascetic, or even the body of the emperor or bishop. At the same time, there has been valued work in the last few years focusing on the…
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Corinthianmatters turns one
A little over a year ago, I launched Corinthianmatters as a blog-site devoted to providing current (often digital) resources for the study of the Corinthia, Greece. As I noted in my first post, I was a little wary that I would begin a blog that would die after a few awkward posts (the common fate…
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The Debate on Erastus Continues
In August, I covered the recent debate among New Testament scholars over the status and rank of an individual (or individuals) by the name of Erastus. The post, called “The Search for the Historical Erastus,” summarized the work of three articles by different scholars that appeared in 2010: John Goodrich (NTS), Steve Friesen (Corinth in…
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