A Resource for the Study of the Corinthia, Greece
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Reading 1 and 2 Corinthians in the Digital Age
A few years ago, a survey by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life found that Americans on average were broadly illiterate about the core beliefs, writings, and teachings of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Only about half of Americans, for example, know the Koran is the sacred text of Islam, Martin Luther was somehow associated with the Protestant Reformation, or…
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AncientCity – Urbanization through Geoinformatics
Updated March 21, 2016 with italicized additions and strikethrough. See also this update. ***************************************************** At the 8th Congress of the Balkan Geophysical Society, held in early October in Chania, Crete, a group of authors presented a paper on a new project called AncientCity – A new Frontier in Ancient Greek Urbanization through Geoinformatics. I don’t see that the project has its own web presence yet,…
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Early Byzantine Pottery from a Building in Kenchreai
Back in August, I noted that the American Excavations at Kenchreai had developed its own website and digital archive for artifacts recovered from investigations of the last half century. I was pleased to see later in the fall the release of this preliminary report about an assemblage of late Roman /early Byzantine pottery found in a sea-side building excavated by the Greek Archaeological Service in 1976,…
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The Isthmus from 20,000+ Feet
I always request a window seat when I fly in and out of Athens International Airpot on the hope of capturing good images of the Corinthia. Photographer and archaeologist Jacquelyn Clements shared with me the image below from her flight in December 2013 (and kindly gave permission to share on this site). The beautiful photo clearly shows the constricting neck that defined…
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Open Access and the Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies
The Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies at the University of Nottingham was founded in 2005 to generate dialogue about all aspects of Peloponnesian and Spartan history from prehistory to the modern age and strengthen connections with scholars within the U.K. and abroad. The Centre hosts visiting faculty, seminars, and conferences. In case you missed the notice in the Ancient World Online, the Centre also recently…
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On the Churches and Saints of Corinth
Tomorrow marks the feast day of Kodratos, Corinth’s most famous ancient country saint martyred during the reign of the Emperor Decius. As I noted a number of years ago when I paraphrased a Latin version of his life, Kodratos was Corinth’s quintessential rural saint: an orphan raised by his Father God in the fields and mountains after his parents’ early death. When he descended into the city of sin…
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Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: The Greek Lamps and Offering Trays (Bookidis and Pemberton)
It’s a monumental achievement to publish in the Corinth Monograph series. These archaeological reports are designed as authoritative statements about the archaeology of individual buildings and sites investigated by the American Excavations at Corinth, and they represent years, if not decades, of scholarly study of architecture and artifacts of individual buildings. The production of the volumes themselves stretches over many years of editing and proofreading. So any new volume in the Corinth or Isthmia series…
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New Management Plan for the Archaeological Site at Corinth
The Mediterranean Institute for Nature and Anthropos (Med-INA), a non-profit scientific organization based in Athens, Greece, has just issued this press release concerning its role in creating a new management plan for the archaeological site of ancient Corinth. Located in North-East Peloponnese, Ancient Corinth is an unparalleled world heritage site. Overseeing two regions and two seas, and endowed…
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The Triton makes a Way
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An Open Bibliography in Corinthian and New Testament Studies
I’ve just surfaced from a week-long purgatorial session editing and indexing the proof text of The Isthmus of Corinth. It was awful–or maybe it was wonderful–but the manuscript is better for it. And now I now understand why authors sometimes cut corners and pay others to index their works. I’m back on track this morning and eager to deliver my overdue Lenten Wednesday series…
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