A Resource for the Study of the Corinthia, Greece
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Whirlwind on the Isthmus
My four days in the Corinthia passed much too quickly for my liking. Day 1: Arrive at the Isthmus and introduce students to the delicious fastfood Goody’s chain; view the canal from the old national highway bridge; race to the top of Acrocorinth before the site closed (now 3 PM, no longer 7); visit Kenchreai…
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Corinth Excavations
As noted in an earlier post, the American School of Classical Studies excavations are underway northwest of the Greek theater. My stay in Corinth was so brief this year that I did not have time to visit the excavation site. But I did have a minute to snap this photo of the theater area from…
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Corinthian Projections of the Past
One of the goals for our trip to Albania and Greece was to encourage students to think comparatively about the two countries. Leaving aside the current economic crisis, Greece often evokes positive images–mountains, sea, and plain; blue skies, blue seas; democracy and theaters and philosophers; ancient ruins in a scenic landscape; Mama Mia and Traveling…
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Corcyra
After traveling with students in Albania, our arrival in Corfu (ancient “Corcyra” / “Kerkyra”) was a shocker. Saranda, Albania was a quiet coastal town. Corfu, the capital city of the island of the same name, was bustling with the loads of cruise ship tourists who disembarked for a few hours to see the old town.…
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Butrint
Butrint (ancient Buthrotum) has made my list of ‘top ten archaeological sites of the eastern Mediterranean.’ The ancient town was our final stop in southern Albania before our group crossed the border to Greece early last week. The site occupies a peninsula on the Vivari channel that connects the Ionian sea to Lake Butrint, and…
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Apollonia
The Corinthian colony tour continues with the site of Apollonia in south-central Albania. Like the site of Dyrrachium, Apollonia was founded in 588 BC as a Greek colony by inhabitants of Corcyra (Corfu) and Corinth, and remained a significant coastal site through late antiquity. But unlike Dyrrachium, the harbor silted up in later antiquity and…
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Dyrrachium
Corinthianmatters is on the road. My colleague, Abaz Kryemadhi, and I are touring Albania and Greece with a group of students. Currently based in Tirane, Albania, we will be journeying southward later this week and end in Corinth on Monday. This journey will provide opportunities to see cities related in some way to Corinth, like…
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Abstracts from Paul, People, and Politics Conference
As a follow up to my last post on the “Corinth – Paul, People, and Politics” at Macquarie University, I have just received from Cavan Concannon a PDF document of the paper abstracts. Check out the Corinth Conference Abstracts. The papers covered a wide range of issues relating in some way to Pauline or early Christian…
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Macquarie University Conference
A first report is now available on the Society for the Study of Early Christianity conference at Macquarie University last weekend, with Corinth as its theme this year. The review focuses mainly on the value of Laurence Welborn’s “The Content and Setting of the Gospel Tradition,” but there are also some positive comments on Amelia…
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In the Steps of Pausanias (Photo Gallery)
I recently stumbled across a gallery of digital images called “In the Steps of Pausanias: In Korinthia,” which contains about 500 images related to Korinthiaka. The gallery appears to be growing. This is not your typical “I went to Ancient Corinth and took lots of photos” photo gallery but rather contains images of the sites and…
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