A Resource for the Study of the Corinthia, Greece
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Corinthiaka
A few Corinthiaka that have come through Google updates over the last couple of weeks: The Corinth Canal needs urgent work (from Athens News) The “Diolkos for 1500 Years” video will be featured this week at the 12th International Meeting of Archaeological Films. See this link for a summary. The Hellenic Foundation for Culture notes…
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Digital Isthmia
A couple of slick new digital resources caught my attention this week for the pan-Hellenic sanctuary site of Isthmia. I just noticed the total makeover of the University of Chicago’s website for the Temple of Poseidon and the Rachi settlement. The content is mainly the same as the old website but the new form of…
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Maps of the Corinthia
Maps of the Corinthia are surprisingly rare via the internet, let alone maps of the ancient Corinthia. A google image search on “Korinthia” or “Corinthia” turns up two dozen very coarse road maps of the northeastern Peloponnese mainly produced or posted by tourist agencies. I have added a new section of this website, Maps of…
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St. Paul’s Corinth (A Music Video)
I think Matt Malcolm may be the first to put together a music video on Corinth of Paul’s day. As he notes in this blog, I’ve just put together a short video, touching on a few highlights of 1 Corinthians, as illuminated by ancient locations and literature. It even includes a slightly saucy section, so…
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St. Kodratos and Company
March 10 marks the feast day of a third century martyr named Kodratos, a Christian poorly known today but evidently important for the church communities of Late Antique and Byzantine Corinth. This Kodratos (aka Codratus / Quadratus) is not to be confused with the famous Kodratos of Athens, the bishop and apologist of the second century.…
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Corinthiaka
The latest Corinthiaka for this cold Monday morning: (via Matt Malcolm’s blog) A conference on May 14 at Macquarie University on the theme of “Corinth – Paul, People and Politics,” sponsored by the Society for the Study of Early Christianity. A seminar (May 12) in advance of the conference on the theme of “The Economy…
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How (not) to write history
This weekend Messiah College is hosting the annual National History Day competition for the south-central Pennsylvania region. Hundreds of junior high and high school kids will descend on our campus and engage in historical research through papers, films, posters, and performances. It is enjoyable to see kids recognizing the value of learning the methods of history…
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Dissertating Corinth
The American School of Classical Studies’ website has a nice piece on Angela Ziskowski’s recently defended dissertation The Construction of Corinthian Identity in the Early Iron Age and Archaic Period. As Angela describes her work there: My work on this topic focused on whether or not archaeological remains and literary testimonia from the city and…
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Polycarp and Socrates in Corinth
The martyrdom of Polycarp bishop of Smyrna, celebrated yesterday in both eastern and western churches, is remarkable in many respects. It is not often that old men got martyred for religious beliefs in antiquity, let alone 86 year old men, and the account itself is among the earliest surviving martyr accounts in early Christian literature…
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Corinthian Scholarship (Winter 2011)
Google Scholar has a very useful alert feature for staying up on research although one has to filter to remove all the junk for words like Corinth. Some recent and forthcoming papers and publications related to things Corinthian A number of AIA chapters have featured or will feature some Corinthia lectures this year. Ron Stroud…
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