Amelia Robertson Brown

A remarkably coherent book dealing with a very complex Archaeological site. Corinth had a Greek beginning, then the classical city was sacked by the Romans in 144 BCE, and then colonized as a Roman city in the time of Julius Caesar. After two hundred years,the place was described by the great Classical travel writer, Pausanias, providing a sort of anchor point. Dr. Brown, taking that description as a starting point, tries to describe the transition of that city into the Byzantine city that was then passed on into the hands of the Fourth Crusaders and the Ottoman empire. Since the excavations began in the 1800's, the site also merits an appendix on the archaeological methodology of the excavations on the site. The final chapter, summing up the archaeological evidence for the social transformations of the period 300 to 600 CE, is a very interesting piece of analysis. A good book for the student as well as the interested reader. of the period. Sadly, the mapping is not particularly clear, and could have been expanded considerably.… (meer)