Category Archives: Western Plain

Maps of the Corinthia

Posted on December 11, 2012 by

I have updated the Maps section of this website as well as the subdirectories for Contours and Maps of the Corinthia. The latter contains a gallery of maps generated for free distribution for educational and research purposes. The maps present … Continue reading →

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Contours of Greece from SRTM Data

Posted on December 10, 2012 by

This post for users of GIS. You should really take the time to learn how to create contour lines automatically so that you can produce topographic maps at different elevation intervals for whatever region you are researching. But, for those … Continue reading →

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A Better Way to Make Topopographic Maps

Posted on December 5, 2012 by

When I attended the THATCamp Philly in September 2011, I listened to a presentation by Dianne Dietrich about the value of programming for teachers and researchers in the humanities: the goal is to avoid processes that can be done automatically. … Continue reading →

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Another look at Land of Sikyon

Posted on August 21, 2012 by

One spring day in 2005, I ran into Yannis Lolos at the Blegen Library in Athens carrying around his recently completed monograph on the history and archaeology of the region of Sikyon, the polis immediately west of Corinth. He told … Continue reading →

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Topography World

Posted on March 2, 2012 by

Messiah College history major, Josh Krosskove, continues the work of digitizing 20 meter contour lines from 1:50,000 maps of the Korinthia.   See our report on this project last year. We are one step closer to completing this.

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Maps of the Corinthia

Posted on March 17, 2011 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Friday Photo Gallery – Views from Acrocorinth

Posted on October 29, 2010 by

I recently received a request by email for some high-resolution images of the Corinthia.  I have taken about 5,000 photos of the Corinthia over the last several years and will be uploading some of my digital image collection to the … Continue reading →

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