Category Archives: Periods, Early Modern

Historic Photos of the Isthmus

Posted on January 18, 2013 by

Friends at FB have posted or sent me links to several facebook pages and albums devoted to photos, postcards, and images of Greece from the late 19th / early 20th century.  Theodoros Metallinos has posted hundreds of fascinating images in … Continue reading →

Posted in Canal, Isthmus, Periods, Early Modern, Periods, Modern, Photos, Urban Center | 2 Comments

Archaeological Research at Corinth – Summer 2012

Posted on December 12, 2012 by

The ASCSA website carries a recent report by Ioulia Tzonou-Herbst summarizing archaeological work in Corinth and the region last summer. The essay offers a snapshot of a wide range of research and programs currently being carried out by archaeologists, art … Continue reading →

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Corinthian Scholarship Monthly (October 2012)

Posted on November 2, 2012 by

The latest round-up of digital scholarship and references over the last month. These references are now available with abstracts and tags at the Corinthian Studies Online (Zotero) Library. Diachronic Dillon, Matthew P. J. “Review. The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in … Continue reading →

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Corinthian Scholarship (monthly): June-August

Posted on August 31, 2012 by

The second installment of Corinth-related scholarship that went digital in June-August. Happy reading! Geology Ford, Mary, Sebastian Rohais, Edward A. Williams, Sylvain Bourlange, David Jousselin, Nicolas Backert, and Fabrice Malartre. “Tectono-sedimentary Evolution of the Western Corinth Rift (Central Greece).” Basin … Continue reading →

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Corinthian Scholarship (monthly): March-May

Posted on August 29, 2012 by

Here is the first installment of Corinth-related scholarship, or scholarship discussing Corinth, which appeared in digital form in March to May. I will post the second installment for June-August on Friday. [Reposting this at 11:00 as I accidentally deleted the … Continue reading →

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Historical Maps via Trove

Posted on August 23, 2012 by

Trove, the National Library of Australia, provides a search engine and metadata for a wide range of textual, audio, and visual sources. Searching by the subjects “Corinth” and “Corinthe” pulls up numerous records for books, pictures, and articles. While most … Continue reading →

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Corinth, Christian Encyclopedia 1866

Posted on August 17, 2012 by

For this Friday photo blog, I direct the viewer to this steel plate engraving from James Gardner’s The Christian Cyclopedia, or A Repertory of Biblical and Theological Literature, published in London 1866. The image, posted by Andy Brill here on … Continue reading →

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Byzantine Corinth: 2011 Publications (and a note on relative frequency of Corinthiaka)

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

In originally separating the recent scholarship on Byzantine-Modern from the 2011  scholarship on Ancient Corinth, I had forgotten that the pickings were so few.  This is a rather sad list (in terms of quantity), and I will combine these three … Continue reading →

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Abstracts of the AIA / APA 2012 Meetings

Posted on January 17, 2012 by

I had planned to post reviews of the AIA / APA meetings a little more than a week ago, but illness and the preparations for a new semester sapped all my momentum.  I have a lot of material in the … Continue reading →

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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 →

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