Scholarship on the Corinthia
**The following bibliography is not intended to be exhaustive but to provide some starting points for academic discussions of Corinth’s territory. This list is weighted toward the eastern territory and recent scholarship and does not provide detailed bibliography of the investigations of Isthmia and Kenchreai.
I. General Scholarship of Corinthian Territory
Doukellis, P. N. 1994. “Le territoire de la colonie romaine de Corinthe,” in Structures rurales et sociétés antiques. Actes du colloque de Corfou, 14–16 mai 1992, ed. P. N. Doukellis and L. G. Mendoni, Paris, pp. 359–390.
Fowler, H.N., 1932. “I. Corinth and the Corinthia,” in H.N. Fowler and R. Stillwell,
Corinth, Vol. I: Introduction: Topography & Architecture, Cambridge, MA, pp. 18-114.
Gregory, T. E. (ed.) 1993. The Corinthia in the Roman Period (Journal of Roman Archaeology suppl. 8). Ann Arbor: Journal of Roman Archaeology.
Romano, D. G. 1993. “Post-146 b.c. Land Use in Corinth, and Planning of the Roman Colony of 44 b.c.,” in Gregory 1993b, pp. 9-30.
———. 2005. “Urban and Rural Planning in Roman Corinth,” in Urban Religion in Roman Corinth: Interdisciplinary Approaches (Harvard Theological Studies 53), ed. D. N. Schowalter and S. J. Friesen, Cambridge, Mass., pp. 25-59.
Rutter, J. B. 2003. “Corinth and the Corinthia in the Second Millennium b.c.: Old Approaches, New Problems,” in Corinth XX, pp. 75–83.
Sakellariou, M. V., and N. Faraklas. 1971. Corinth–Cleonai (Ancient Greek Cities 3), Athens.
Salmon, J. B. 1984. Wealthy Corinth: A History of the City to 338 B.C., Oxford.
Wiseman, J. 1978. The Land of the Ancient Corinthians (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 50). Göteborg: P. Åström.
II. Scholarship of the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey
Caraher, W. R., and L. Diacopoulos. 2004. “Less than a Village: Patterns of Rural Settlement in the Landscape of the Southeastern Korinthia” (Paper, Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco 2004).
Caraher, W. R., D. Nakassis, and D. K. Pettegrew. 2006. “Siteless Survey and Intensive Data Collection in an Artifact-Rich Environment: Case Studies from the Eastern Corinthia, Greece,” JMA 19.1, pp. 7-43.
Gregory, T.E., Forthcoming. “Religion and Society as seen from the Eastern Corinthia in Roman Times.”
———. 2007. “Contrasting Impressions of Land Use in Early Modern Greece: Kythera and the Eastern Corinthia,” in Between Venice and Istanbul: Colonial Landscapes in Early Modern Greece ca. 1500-1800 A.D., (Hesperia Supp. 40), eds. S. Davies and J. L. Davis, Princeton, pp. 169-196.
James, S. 2005. “An Olive Press Installation from the Eastern Korinthia,” Poster for the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of Amerca, Boston 2005.
Pettegrew, D.K., “Regional Survey and the Boom-and-Bust Countryside: Rereading the Archaeological Evidence for Episodic Abandonment in the Late Roman Corinthia” International Journal of Historical Archaeology, in press.
———. “The End of Ancient Corinth? Views from the Landscape,” in William R.
Caraher, Linda Jones Hall, and R.Scott Moore (eds.), Archaeology and History in Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece: Studies on Method and Meaning in Honor of Timothy E. Gregory, in press, Ashgate.
———. 2007. “The Busy Countryside of Late Roman Corinth: Interpreting Ceramic Data Produced by Regional Archaeological Surveys,” Hesperia 76.4.
———. 2006. “Corinth on the Isthmus: Studies of the End of an Ancient Landscape” (diss. Ohio State Univ.).
Rothaus, R. M., E. Reinhardt, T. Tartaron, and J. Noller. 2003. “A Geoarchaeological Approach for Understanding Prehistoric Usage of the Coastline of the Eastern Korinthia,” in METRON: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age (Aegaeum 24), ed. K. Foster and R. Lafneur, Liège, pp. 37–47.
Sarris, A. 2003. Technical Report: Geophysical Prospection Survey at Kromna-Kesimia and Perdikaria as Part of the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey (EKAS-2002), Rethymnon.
Tartaron, Thomas F., Timothy E. Gregory, Daniel J. Pullen, Jay S. Noller, Richard M. Rothaus, Joseph L. Rife, Lita Diacopoulos, Robert L. Schon, William Caraher, David Pettegrew, Dimitri Nakassis, 2006. “The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: Integrated Methods for a Dynamic Landscape,” in Hesperia 75.4, pp. 453-523.
Tartaron, T. F., D. J. Pullen, and J. S. Noller. 2006. “Rillenkarren at Vayia: Geomorphology and a New Class of Early Bronze Age Fortied Settlement in Southern Greece,” Antiquity 80, pp. 145–160.
III. The Isthmus of Corinth
Barbet, A., and J. L. Rife. Forthcoming. “Influence de la peinture romaine occidentale dans le tombeau no. 4 de la nécropole de Cenchrées (Kenchreai) près de Corinthe.” Proceedings of the IX Congreso internacional de la «Association internationale pour la peinture murale antique». Calatayud and Saragossa.
Blegen, C.W., “Corinth in Prehistoric Times,” AJA 24 (1920), 8-13.
Bray, M.T. 2006. “Gateways to the Corinthia: Kenchreai and Lechaion, Corinth’s Two Ports, from the 1st Century B.C. to the 7th Century A.D.,” Unpublished M.A. Thesis, UCLA: Los Angeles.
Caraher, W. R., D. Nakassis, and D. K. Pettegrew. 2006. “Siteless Survey and Intensive Data Collection in an Artifact-Rich Environment: Case Studies from the Eastern Corinthia, Greece,” JMA 19.1, pp. 7-43.
Gregory, T. E. 1985. “An Early Byzantine Complex at Akra Sophia near Corinth,” Hesperia 54, pp. 411-28.
Gregory, T.E., and P.N. Kardulias, “Geophysical and Surface Surveys in the Byzantine Fortress at Isthmia,” in Hesperia 59 (1990), 467-511.
Kardulias, P.N, 2005. From Classical to Byzantine: Social Evolution in Late Antiquity and the Fortress at Isthmia, Greece, BAR Series Vol. 1412, Oxford.
———. 1995. “Architecture, Energy, and Social Evolution at Isthmia, Greece: Some Thoughts about Late Antiquity in the Korinthia,” in JMA 8.2 (1995), 33-59.
Noller, J., L. Wells, E. Reinhardt, and R. Rothaus. 1997. “Subsidence of the Harbor at Kenchreai, Saronic Gulf, Greece, during the Earthquakes of a.d. 400 and a.d. 1928,” Eos 78, p. 636.
Pettegrew, D.K., 2006. “The Busy Countryside of Late Roman Corinth: Interpreting Ceramic Data Produced by Regional Archaeological Surveys,” Hesperia 76.4 (2007).
———. “Regional Survey and the Boom-and-Bust Countryside: Rereading the Archaeological Evidence for Episodic Abandonment in the Late Roman Corinthia” International Journal of Historical Archaeology, in press.
———. “The End of Ancient Corinth? Views from the Landscape,” in William R. Caraher, Linda Jones Hall, and R.Scott Moore (eds.), Archaeology and History in Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece: Studies on Method and Meaning in Honor of Timothy E. Gregory, in press, Ashgate.
———. 2006. “Corinth on the Isthmus: Studies of the End of an Ancient Landscape” (diss. Ohio State Univ.).
Rife, J. L. Forthcoming. “Inhumation and cremation at early Roman Kenchreai (Corinthia) in local and regional context.” Eds., A. Faber, P. Fasold, M. Struck, and M. Witteyer, Proceedings of the International Colloquium ‘Inhumations in the Roman Empire from the 1st until the end of the 3rd century A.D.’ (Schriften des Archäologischen Museums Frankfurt 20). Frankfurt: Archäologisches Museum.
Rife, J. L., M. M. Morison, A. Barbet, R. K. Dunn, D. H. Ubelaker, and F. Monier. 2007. “Life and death at a port in Roman Greece: The Kenchreai Cemetery Project 2002-2006.” Hesperia 76.
Romano, D. R. 2000. "A tale of two cities: Roman colonies at Corinth." In E. Fentress, ed., Romanization and the City: Creation, Transformations, and Failures (Journal of Roman Archaeology suppl. 38), pp. 83-104. Portsmouth: Journal of Roman Archaeology.
Rothaus, R. M. 2000. Corinth, the First City of Greece: An Urban History of Late Antique Cult and Religion. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
———. 1994. “Urban Space, Agricultural Space and Villas in Late Roman Corinth,” in Structures rurales et sociétés antiques, eds. P. N. Doukellis and L. G. Mendoni, Paris 1994, pp. 391-396.
Sarris, R. K. Dunn, J. L. Rife, N. Papadopoulos, E. Kokkinou, and C. Mundigler. 2006. “Geological and geophysical investigations in the Roman cemetery at Kenchreai (Korinthia), Greece.” Archaeological Prospection 13.4.
Thomas F. Tartaron, Timothy E. Gregory, Daniel J. Pullen, Jay S. Noller, Richard M. Rothaus, Joseph L. Rife, Lita Diacopoulos, Robert L. Schon, William Caraher, David Pettegrew, Dimitri Nakassis, 2006. The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: Integrated Methods for a Dynamic Landscape, Hesperia 75:4, 453-523
Wiseman, J. 1963. “A Trans-Isthmian Fortication Wall: Notes on Hellenistic Military Operations in the Corinthia,” Hesperia 32, pp. 248–275.
IV. The Northeast Corinthia, Perachora, & the Gulf of Corinth
Gregory, T. E. 1986b. “A Desert Island Survey in the Gulf of Corinth,” Archaeology 39.3, pp. 16-21.
———. “Diporto: A Byzantine Maritime Settlement in the Gulf of Korinth,” Deltion tis Christianikis Archaiologikis Etaireias 12, pp. 287-304.
V. Southern Korinthia
Caraher, W. R., and L. Diacopoulos. 2004. “Less than a Village: Patterns of Rural Settlement in the Landscape of the Southeastern Korinthia” (Paper, San Francisco 2004).
Dixon, M.D., “Disputed Territories: Interstate Arbitrations in the Northeast Peloponnese, ca. 250-150 BC.” Unpublished PhD dissertation, Department of History, The Ohio State University 2000.
Gregory, T.E., 1994. “From Kleonai to Agios Vasilios: Journey through an Ancient Landscape,” in Structures rurales et sociétés antiques. Actes du colloque de Corfou, 14–16 mai 1992, ed. P. N. Doukellis and L. G. Mendoni, Paris, pp. 351–358.
Hjohlman, J., A. Penttinen, and B. Wells. 2005. Pyrgouthi: A Rural Site in the Berbati Valley from the Early Iron Age to Late Antiquity. Excavations by the Swedish Institute at Athens 1995 and 1997, Stockholm.
Kardulias, P. N., T. E. Gregory, and J. Sawmiller. 1995. “Bronze Age and Late Antique Exploitation of an Islet in the Saronic Gulf, Greece,” JFA 22, pp. 3-21.
Marchand, J. 2002. “Well-built Kleonai: A History of the Peloponnesian City Based on a Survey of the Visible Remains and a Study of the Literary and Epigraphic Sources” (diss. Univ. of California, Berkeley).
Pullen, Daniel J., and Thomas F. Tartaron, N.D. “Where's the Palace? The Absence of State Formation in the Late Bronze Age Corinthia,” in Rethinking the Mycenaean Palaces, 2nd edition, ed. Michael Galaty and William Parkinson. UCLA/Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. In press.
Rothaus, Richard M., Eduard Reinhardt, Thomas F. Tartaron, and Jay S. Noller, 2003. “A Geoarchaeological Approach for Understanding Prehistoric Usage of the Coastline of the Eastern Korinthia,” in Metron: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age (Aegaeum 24), ed. Karen P. Foster and Robert Laffineur. Universite de Liege, pp. 37-47.
Tartaron, T. F., D. J. Pullen, and J. S. Noller. 2006. “Rillenkarren at Vayia: Geomorphology and a New Class of Early Bronze Age Fortied Settlement in Southern Greece,” Antiquity 80, pp. 145–160.
Tartaron, T. F., R. M. Rothaus, and D. J. Pullen. 2003. “Searching for Prehistoric Aegean Harbors with GIS, Geomorphology, and Archaeology,” Athena Review 3:4, pp. 27-36.
Wright, J. C., J. F. Cherry, J. L. Davis, E. Mantzourani, S. B. Sutton, and R. F. Sutton, Jr. 1990. “The Nemea Valley Archaeological Project: A Preliminary Report,” Hesperia 59, pp. 579-659.
VI. Western Korinthia
Lolos, G. J. 2007. Land of Sikyon: The Archaeology and History of a Greek City-State (Hesperia Suppl. 39), Princeton.