The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce the publication of Bridge of the Untiring Sea: The Corinthian Isthmus from Prehistory to Late Antiquity, edited by Elizabeth R. Gebhard and Timothy E. Gregory.
Pindar’s metaphor of the Isthmus as a bridge spanning two seas encapsulates the essence of the place and gives a fitting title for this volume of 17 essays on the history and archaeology of the area. The Isthmus, best known for the panhellenic Sanctuary of Poseidon, attracted travelers both before and after Pausanias’s visit in the 2nd century A.D., but only toward the end of the 19th century were the ruins investigated and, a half century later, finally systematically excavated. More recently, archaeologists have surveyed the territory beyond the sanctuary, compiling evidence for a varied picture of activity on the wider Isthmus and the eastern Corinthia. The essays in this book celebrate 55 years of research on the Isthmus and provide a comprehensive overview of the state of our knowledge.
Contents
Introduction: by Elizabeth R. Gebhard and Timothy E. Gregory
Chapter 1: “An Early Mycenaean Habitation Site at Kyras Vrysi,” by Eleni Balomenou and Vasili Tassinos
Chapter 2: “The Settlement at Kalamianos: Bronze Age Small Worlds and the Saronic Coast of the Southeastern Corinthia,” by Thomas F. Tartaron
Chapter 3: “The Archaic Temple of Poseidon: Problems of Design and Invention,” by Frederick P. Hemans
Chapter 4: “The Domestic Architecture of the Rachi Settlement at Isthmia,” by Virginia R. Anderson-Stojanović
Chapter 5: “City, Sanctuary, and Feast: Dining Vessels from the Archaic Reservoir in the Sanctuary of Poseidon,” by Martha K. Risser
Chapter 6: “The Temple Deposit at Isthmia and the Dating of Archaic and Early Classical Greek Coins,” by Liane Houghtalin
Chapter 7: “Riding for Poseidon: Terracotta Figurines from the Sanctuary of Poseidon,” by Arne Thomsen
Chapter 8: “The Chigi Painter at Isthmia?” by K. W. Arafat
Chapter 9: “Arms from the Age of Philip and Alexander at Broneer’s West Foundation near Isthmia,” by Alastar H. Jackson
Chapter 10: “New Sculptures from the Isthmian Palaimonion,” by Mary C. Sturgeon
Chapter 11: “Agonistic Festivals, Victors, and Officials in the Time of Nero: An Inscribed Herm from the Gymnasium Area of Corinth,” by James Wiseman
Chapter 12: “Roman Baths at Isthmia and Sanctuary Baths in Greece,” by Fikret K.Yegül
Chapter 13: “The Roman Buildings East of the Temple of Poseidon on the Isthmus,” by Steven J. R. Ellis and Eric E. Poehler
Chapter 14: “Corinthian Suburbia: Patterns of Roman Settlement on the Isthmus,” by David K. Pettegrew
Chapter 15: “Work Teams on the Isthmian Fortress and the Development of a Later Roman Architectural Aesthetic,” by Jon M. Frey
Chapter 16: “Epigraphy, Liturgy, and Imperial Policy on the Justinianic Isthmus,” by William R. Caraher
Chapter 17: “Circular Lamps in the Late Antique Peloponnese,” by Birgitta Lindros Wohl
Bridge of the Untiring Sea: The Corinthian Isthmus from Prehistory to Late Antiquity
edited by Elizabeth R. Gebhard and Timothy E. Gregory
Hesperia Supplement 48
408 pp, 140 b/w and 11 color figs, 6 tables, 4 plans
8.5 x 11 inches
Paper, ISBN: 978-0-87661-548-5
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