{"id":766,"date":"2018-03-15T17:05:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T17:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginingancientcorinth.com\/?page_id=766"},"modified":"2024-08-02T10:34:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T15:34:54","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/imaginingancientcorinth.com\/?page_id=766","title":{"rendered":"About Imagining Ancient Corinth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Imagining Ancient Corinth: An Introduction to Greek Literature and Culture<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a born-digital textbook for intermediate Greek students. \u00a0It blends features of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">spatial humanities, online commentaries, material culture, and second language acquisition<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to create a resource for students of ancient Greek preparing for their first encounter with authentic Greek texts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Features<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Imagining Ancient Corinth<\/em> provides <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A geographical interface that allows students to follow Pausanias\u2019 actual steps through the site of ancient Corinth and permits them to click on various monuments and go directly to Pausanias\u2019 description of the specific site. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Readings from writers of the Hellenistic, Koine, and Second Sophistic traditions, including Apollodorus\u2019 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Library<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Acts of the Apostles<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Paul\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First Letter to the Corinthians<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Zonaras\u2019 <em>Epitome<\/em>, Strabo\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Geography<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Polybius\u2019 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Histories<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the poet Antipater, Dio Chrysostom, and Plutarch, plus inscriptions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Culture essays that describe Corinth\u2019s history, mythology, economic vitality, waterworks, and religious traditions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vocabulary lists by frequency<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interactive grammar review exercises<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pre- and post-reading activities, the former to help activate linguistic and cultural schemata, and the latter to help consolidate and respond creatively to what was read.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Images, plans, diagrams, and family trees to help students to visualize ancient Corinth.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more help using this website, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/imaginingancientcorinth.com\/?page_id=775\">How to Navigate<\/a> Imagining Ancient Corinth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagining Ancient Corinth: An Introduction to Greek Literature and Culture is a born-digital textbook for intermediate Greek students. \u00a0It blends features of spatial humanities, online commentaries, material culture, and second language acquisition to create a resource for students of ancient Greek preparing for their first encounter with authentic Greek texts. 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