Corinthian Matters

A Resource for the Study of the Corinthia, Greece

  • Two recent items of Corinthiaka from Australian scholars

    I’ve recently noticed two pieces about 1-2 Corinthians from Australian scholars, which are worth noticing: Firstly, here, in a description of the “New College Lectures” at the University of New South Wales, David Starling suggests that 1 Corinthians may be thought of as setting a trajectory that validates the systematic codification of Christian theology. Secondly, in the September newsletter…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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. …

  • “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…

  • An Early Summer Evening

    Photo taken by D. Pettegrew June 1, 2011. 

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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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