Category Archives: Corinth in the Mind

Some Perspective on American Excavations in Corinth: Byzantium and the Avant Garde

Posted on November 22, 2011 by

I couldn’t make it last week to Grand Forks to hear Franklin & Marshall College professor Kostis Kourelis speak on the topic of Byzantium and the Avant Garde.  Thanks to Bill Caraher and the Center for Instructional and Learning Technologies … Continue reading →

Posted in American School Excavations, Christian - St. Paul, Conferences, Lectures, and Presentations, Corinth in the Mind, Museums, Periods, Byzantine, Periods, Late Antiquity, Urban Center, Video | 1 Comment

Kostis Kourelis on Byzantium and the Avant Garde

Posted on November 14, 2011 by

Professor Kostis Kourelis of Franklin and Marshall College will speak today at 4 PM CST on the American School Excavations at Corinth in the 1930s.  The presentation at the University of North Dakota is the 2011 Cyprus Research Fund Lecture.  … Continue reading →

Posted in American School Excavations, Corinth in the Mind, Periods, Byzantine, Periods, Modern | Leave a comment

Corinthiaka

Posted on November 3, 2011 by

Some various Corinthiaka have appeared in different blogs over the last month. Diana Wright at Surprised by Time gives some attention to the death and estate of Nerio Acciaiuoli, the (late 14th century) Lord of Corinth. Kostis Kourelis at Objects-Buildings-Situations … Continue reading →

Posted in Christian - 1 Corinthians, Christian - 2 Corinthians, Christian - St. Paul, Corinth in the Mind, Corinthiaka | Leave a comment

Life Among Ruins

Posted on November 2, 2011 by

The Department of Archaeology at the University of Amsterdam recently launched a new website “Byzantine & Ottoman Archaeology: Digging up answers in the Medieval Mediterranean”  as the official site for their VIDI-Research Project on material culture in the eastern Mediterranean … Continue reading →

Posted in Acrocorinth, Corinth in the Mind, Drawings, Museums, Periods, Early Modern, Photos, Temple of Apollo | Leave a comment

The Vampire on the Isthmus: A Halloween Tale

Posted on October 31, 2011 by

It is hard to know why ancient writers found Corinth and its territory a region suitable for placing ghosts, witches, and vampires, and whether the region was any more haunted than other towns and countrysides of the ancient world.  The … Continue reading →

Posted in Corinth in the Mind, Isthmus, Kenchreai, Periods, Roman Colony, Philosophy, Roman Religion, Texts | Leave a comment

Oscar Broneer, St. Paul, and Wicked Corinth (and a new blog)

Posted on October 13, 2011 by

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in American School Excavations, Christian - 1 Corinthians, Christian - St. Paul, Corinth in the Mind, Isthmia, Periods, Modern, Urban Center | 2 Comments

Historical Fictions

Posted on September 6, 2011 by

Since antiquity, the Corinthia has formed a rather fitting stage for imaginative narratives and outright fictions.  In the long Roman era, we have frequent examples of writers (e.g., Apuleius, Lucian, Libanius, and Themistius) placing their fictional characters and events in … Continue reading →

Posted in Christian - St. Paul, Corinth in the Mind, Historical Fiction, Isthmus, Periods, Interim, Periods, Roman Colony | 1 Comment

Bungee into the Abyss

Posted on August 10, 2011 by

If it looks unsafe, it probably is.  That’s what I have often thought while watching extreme sport types jump 80 meters head first into the Corinth Canal.  For 60 Euro you can pay Zulu Bungy to jump from the old … Continue reading →

Posted in Canal, Corinth in the Mind, Isthmus, Periods, Modern, Video | 1 Comment

Corinthian Scholarship (May-June 2011)

Posted on June 30, 2011 by

It’s been a couple of months since the last Corinthian Scholarship update, so we have a full list here.  The following list compiles the works I happened to see and the (imperfect) results of various google alerts.  If you have … Continue reading →

Posted in American School Excavations, Christian - 1 Corinthians, Christian - 2 Corinthians, Christian - St. Paul, Colonies of Corinth, Corinth in the Mind, Corinthian Scholarship (monthly), Economy, Geology, Periods, Archaic, Periods, Geometric, Periods, Hellenistic, Periods, Late Antiquity, Periods, Roman Colony, Roman Religion, Trade and Commerce, Urban Center | Leave a comment

Corinthian Projections of the Past

Posted on June 20, 2011 by

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; … Continue reading →

Posted in Corinth in the Mind, Periods, Modern | Leave a comment