A Resource for the Study of the Corinthia, Greece
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The Diolkos Petition
It’s not hard to construct narratives of decline for the paved trans-Isthmus diolkos road. One only has to compare the monument unearthed by N. Verdelis 50 years ago with modern photos of a road sliding into the canal. Indeed, Sophia Loverdou has used the tools of social media to launch a “Save the Diolkos” campaign. …
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Corinthian Scholarship (September)
Archaic-Hellenistic Corinthiaka in discussions of Pindar: L. Athanassaki and E. Bowie (eds.), Archaic and Classical Choral Song: Performance, Politics and Dissemination (de Gruyter 2011) More Corinthiaka in E. Carney and D. Ogden, Philip II and Alexander the Great: Father and Son, Lives and Afterlives (Oxford 2010) Byzantine Chryssi Bourbou, Benjamin T. Fuller Sandra J. Garvie-Lok, Michael…
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Cruising the Canal, Damaging the Diolkos
One of the consequences of spending a summer morning talking with Sophia Loverdou was seeing the diolkos in a whole new light. I had contacted Sophia following the recommendation of a reviewer (on a forthcoming diolkos article) that a woman had launched a crusade to save the diolkos of Corinth. I had seen Sophia’s name…
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A Cruise Ship in the Corinth Canal
In early June I had the chance to visit the Corinth Canal with Sophia Loverdou, the woman who has launched a campaign to save the ancient diolkos (more on that campaign later in the week). As I wrote in this post in late June, she and I toured the part of the diolkos inside Military…
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Corinthiaka
Odds, ends, miscellany and fun: After my post on extreme sports at the Isthmus, I realize I left out the Isthmia Open! Imagine 160 chess players from countries everywhere. I love the choice of venue with its gesture to the ancient games. St. Paul’s Corinth as reality TV show: “But wait–actually, there is a place…
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Histories of Peirene
There are no monuments of ancient Corinth more famous and iconic than the Fountain of Peirene. Any modern visitor who has wandered among the ruins will likely have shot a photo like the one below of the Roman spring facade and court. And anyone who walks into a tourist shop will have seen plenty of…
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Lolos on Ancient Greek Sikyon
Knoxville’s Daily Beacon has a short little piece, “Lecturer Gives Details on Ancient Greek City-State” on Yannis Lolos’ recent lecture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The Sikyon Survey Project has been conducting an urban large-site survey at Sikyon since 2004 and has produced a significant corpus of material from gridded survey collection. Indeed, this…
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Tsunamis in the Gulf of Corinth
When the terrible tsunami hit the northeast coast of Japan six months ago, I couldn’t stop following the media coverage of the sheer destruction. I was glued to the unfolding event all the more as I watched friends in Hawaii update their facebook statuses and followed the status of my brother-in-law, who had just started…
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Were the First Christians Rich or Poor?
It’s the question that Greg Carey of neighboring Lancaster Theological Seminary asks in an essay in yesterday’s Huffington Post. Carey follows up on an essay last month titled “Imagining the First Christians,” and promises a third one on the “contribution of women” to early Christian communities. This essay on the question of rich and poor…
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Corinthian Sites in Google Earth and Map
Yesterday I discussed a number of resources for viewing Corinthian territory from the air. Some of the same resources also provide incredible views of the archaeological sites of the Corinthia. This can be especially valuable if you want to view a site from a bird’s eye perspective. It is possible to capture a photo of…
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