David K Pettegrew
Biographic Data
| ID | 1138256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David K Pettegrew |
| GIVEN NAMES | David K |
| FAMILY NAME | Pettegrew |
| SIGNATURE | PETTEGREW D K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Messiah College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0073-6045 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Washingtonia 1829: An American refugee colony in Greece
The founding of the colony of Washingtonia at Ano Examilia on the Isthmus of Corinth represents a unique, forgotten episode of collaborative humanitarianism at the birth of the Greek nation-state. Established in 1829 by Samuel Gridley Howe and his colleagues, funded by American citizens, and chartered by Governor Ioannis Kapodistrias, the settlement housed several dozenmigrant families displaced during the Greek War of Independence (1821-1829). W…
Mobilizing the Archaeological Report for a Future of Reuse: Linked Open Data and the Scholar-Led Publication
Corinthian Countrysides: Linked Open Data and Analysis from the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey
Corinthian Countrysides presents the datasets, analysis, and results of a large-scale intensive survey in the eastern territory of Corinth between 1997 and 2003. Carried out under a permit of the Greek Ministry of Culture granted through the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey investigated the Isthmus west of the Corinth Canal, a highly-connected transport corridor and densely settled area f…
The Christian Building at Dura-Europos: Rethinking the Archaeology of the World's Oldest House Church
In his final report of the excavations at Dura-Europos, Syria, the scholar Carl Kraeling established the site’s Christian Building as the ancient world’s preeminent example of a domus ecclesiae, a house converted into a church through architectural adaptation. In Kraeling’s interpretation, a private domestic structure (House M8A) built in 232 CE was later remade as a community-owned church through a single, deliberate program of modification. Thi…
Diolkos
Diolkos is the toponymic term used by the geographer Strabo to denote the narrowest constriction of land within an isthmus. In the nineteenth century, scholars read the term as a causeway or railway used to transport ships and cargoes across the Isthmus of Corinth, a view that gained traction after the discovery of a physical limestone road on the western side of the Isthmus in the 1950s. Recent scholarship has downplayed the role of the road as …
Lechaion
Lechaion was the principal harbor of Corinth, Greece from the Archaic Greek period through Late Antiquity. As the immediate point of access for the city to the western Corinthian Gulf and the broader maritime world, it was larger and more substantial than the city's eastern harbors at Kenchreai and Schoinous. Lechaion is significant for its extensive sheltering area (15 ha), excavated interior basins, and significant Early Christian basilica whic…
The Greek Communities of Harrisburg and Lancaster: A Study of Immigration, Residence, and Mobility in the City Beautiful Era
Harrisburg's urban reformers promised better housing and living conditions for all the city's residents, but the demolition of the Old Eighth Ward and the construction of more expensive housing between 1910 and 1930 made it harder for new Greek immigrants to make a living and a home in the city. This article compares demographic and geospatial data for Greek immigrant communities in Harrisburg and neighboring Lancaster to highlight the different …
Harrisburg, the City Beautiful: Recasting the History of Urban Reform in a Small American Capital
In 1980 William H. Wilson published an important essay in Pennsylvania History that defined Harrisburg's City Beautiful movement as “successful.” In his analysis, reformers galvanized citizens to vote for civic betterment. A package of amenities—pavements, clean water, drainage, and parks—improved the state capital. On this fortieth anniversary of Wilson's publication, in a year commemorating significant federal amendments granting suffrage to Af…
The Digital Harrisburg Project: Placing the Population of a Progressive Era City
Our article describes the work of the Digital Harrisburg Project in placing the population of Pennsylvania's capital city on geocoded historical maps in 1900–1930. We argue that geocoded census data—population tied to precise locations in a GIS—marks a game-changer for creating fine-grained historical pictures of human mobility and changing urban diversity. Because historical federal census tables recorded information about race, immigration, occ…
Harrisburg's Historic African American Community: An Interview with Calobe Jackson Jr
This excerpted oral history with Calobe Jackson Jr., prominent citizen and local historian, discusses Harrisburg's African American community in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, relationships between the city's black and white population, the City Beautiful movement, and the Commonwealth Monument Project
The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology
The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology brings together significant work by leading scholars of the archaeology of early Christianity in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions. The thirty-four contributions to this volume ground the history, culture, and society of the first seven centuries of Christianity in archaeological method, theory, and research. Collectively the essays emphasize the link between fieldwork, archaeological met…
Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology
"The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology brings together expert work by leading scholars of the archaeology of Early Christianity and the Roman world in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions. The thirty-four contributions to this volume survey Christian material culture and ground the history, culture, and society of the first seven centuries of Christianity in archaeological method, theory, and research. The essays emphasize the l…
The End of Ancient Corinth? Views from the Landscape
The subject of this paper is a familiar one in the scholarship of Corinth: in what sense did the ancient city “end” between the 3rd and 7th centuries A.D.? This is a question that may seem best addressed from the vantage point of the urban center, with its numerous administrative and religious buildings and spaces. Yet, as Timothy Gregory has argued, the Ancient city also existed in a variety of broader spheres, in its territory and landscape, in…
The Isthmus of Corinth: Crossroads of the Mediterranean World
The narrow neck of land that joins the Peloponnese with the Greek mainland was central to the fortunes of the city of Corinth and the history of Greece from the classical Greek period to the end of the ancient world. Corinth was perfectly situated for monitoring land traffic between Athens and Sparta and overland movements between eastern and western seas. David Pettegrew's book offers a new history of the Isthmus of Corinth from the Romans' init…
The Diolkos and the Emporion: How a Land Bridge Framed the Commercial Economy of Roman Corinth
In the 18th and 19th centuries, when Corinth became the subject of historical study, scholars again invoked territory to make sense of the city. The arguments for the diolkos and the emporion have constantly influenced interpretations of the city. This chapter reconsiders the explanations about the commercial facilities of the Isthmus in light of the extant textual evidence. It argues the second of these ideas (the thoroughfare thesis) has no bas…
Taking Mobile Computing to the Field
Diolkos
Diolkos is a term used in ancient literature for a narrow land strip associated with portaging (from διέλκειν, “to haul across”) and in modern scholarship for the paved limestone road across the 7 km wide Corinthian Isthmus.
Lechaion
Lechaion was the principal harbor of Corinth, located 3 km north of the urban center on the sandy coast of the Corinthian Gulf.
Landscapes, Greek
The countryside was central to the life of the Greek polis but was routinely ignored by ancient writers more interested in cities and urban affairs than the mundane arenas of work and toil. Since the 1960s, historians and archaeologists have met the neglect of textual sources with regional programs of archaeological research aimed at reconstructing the ancient territories of Greece. Today scholars use the conceptual framework of “landscape” for d…
Connectivity
“Connectivity” is a concept recently adopted in ancient studies to describe the nature, state, and degree of interaction within and between populations and regions of the Mediterranean basin, Europe, and Near East.
Mediterranean harbors
In antiquity, harbors were both the principal points of interaction between inhabitants and their connecting sea as well as shelters from winds, waves, and currents.
TheDiolkosof Corinth
Since the mid 19th century, the paved portage road known as the diolkos has been central to interpreting the historical fortune of the city of Corinth and the commercial facility of its isthmus. In this article, I reevaluate the view that the diolkos made the isthmus a commercial thoroughfare by reconsidering the archaeological, logistical, and textual evidence for the road and overland portaging. Each form of evidence problematizes the notion of…
Regional Survey and the Boom-and-bust Countryside: Re-reading the Archaeological Evidence for Episodic Abandonment in the Late Roman Corinthia
Towers and Fortifications at Vayia in the Southeast Corinthia
An article describing and analyzing the rural towers in the Southeast Corinthia, Greece
Surveying Late Antique Cyprus
The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: Integrated Methods for a Dynamic Landscape
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 75, Number 4, October-December 2006
Chasing the Classical Farmstead: Assessing the Formation and Signature of Rural Settlement in Greek Landscape Archaeology
Over the past 20 years, the classical farmstead has become an essential categorical term in the literature of Greek survey archaeology. This paper traces the development of the category 'farmstead' out of the conceptual paradigm of settlement archaeology. It is argued that the tendency to categorize classical-period artifact clusters as -farmsteads-, without understanding the role of cultural processes in forming the archaeological record, create…
The Busy Countryside of Late Roman Corinth: Interpreting Ceramic Data Produced by Regional Archaeological Surveys
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 76, Number 4, October-December 2007
Regional Survey and the Boom-and-bust Countryside: Re-reading the Archaeological Evidence for Episodic Abandonment in the Late Roman Corinthia
Mobilizing the Archaeological Report for a Future of Reuse: Linked Open Data and the Scholar-Led Publication
Taking Mobile Computing to the Field
TheDiolkosof Corinth
Since the mid 19th century, the paved portage road known as the diolkos has been central to interpreting the historical fortune of the city of Corinth and the commercial facility of its isthmus. In this article, I reevaluate the view that the diolkos made the isthmus a commercial thoroughfare by reconsidering the archaeological, logistical, and textual evidence for the road and overland portaging. Each form of evidence problematizes the notion of…
Towers and Fortifications at Vayia in the Southeast Corinthia
An article describing and analyzing the rural towers in the Southeast Corinthia, Greece
Surveying Late Antique Cyprus
Chasing the Classical Farmstead: Assessing the Formation and Signature of Rural Settlement in Greek Landscape Archaeology
Over the past 20 years, the classical farmstead has become an essential categorical term in the literature of Greek survey archaeology. This paper traces the development of the category 'farmstead' out of the conceptual paradigm of settlement archaeology. It is argued that the tendency to categorize classical-period artifact clusters as -farmsteads-, without understanding the role of cultural processes in forming the archaeological record, create…
The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: Integrated Methods for a Dynamic Landscape
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 75, Number 4, October-December 2006
The Busy Countryside of Late Roman Corinth: Interpreting Ceramic Data Produced by Regional Archaeological Surveys
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 76, Number 4, October-December 2007
Surveying Late Antique Cyprus
Regional Survey and the Boom-and-bust Countryside: Re-reading the Archaeological Evidence for Episodic Abandonment in the Late Roman Corinthia
Towers and Fortifications at Vayia in the Southeast Corinthia
An article describing and analyzing the rural towers in the Southeast Corinthia, Greece
TheDiolkosof Corinth
Since the mid 19th century, the paved portage road known as the diolkos has been central to interpreting the historical fortune of the city of Corinth and the commercial facility of its isthmus. In this article, I reevaluate the view that the diolkos made the isthmus a commercial thoroughfare by reconsidering the archaeological, logistical, and textual evidence for the road and overland portaging. Each form of evidence problematizes the notion of…
Diolkos
Diolkos is a term used in ancient literature for a narrow land strip associated with portaging (from διέλκειν, “to haul across”) and in modern scholarship for the paved limestone road across the 7 km wide Corinthian Isthmus.
Lechaion
Lechaion was the principal harbor of Corinth, located 3 km north of the urban center on the sandy coast of the Corinthian Gulf.
Landscapes, Greek
The countryside was central to the life of the Greek polis but was routinely ignored by ancient writers more interested in cities and urban affairs than the mundane arenas of work and toil. Since the 1960s, historians and archaeologists have met the neglect of textual sources with regional programs of archaeological research aimed at reconstructing the ancient territories of Greece. Today scholars use the conceptual framework of “landscape” for d…
Connectivity
“Connectivity” is a concept recently adopted in ancient studies to describe the nature, state, and degree of interaction within and between populations and regions of the Mediterranean basin, Europe, and Near East.
Mediterranean harbors
In antiquity, harbors were both the principal points of interaction between inhabitants and their connecting sea as well as shelters from winds, waves, and currents.
Taking Mobile Computing to the Field
The Diolkos and the Emporion: How a Land Bridge Framed the Commercial Economy of Roman Corinth
In the 18th and 19th centuries, when Corinth became the subject of historical study, scholars again invoked territory to make sense of the city. The arguments for the diolkos and the emporion have constantly influenced interpretations of the city. This chapter reconsiders the explanations about the commercial facilities of the Isthmus in light of the extant textual evidence. It argues the second of these ideas (the thoroughfare thesis) has no bas…
The End of Ancient Corinth? Views from the Landscape
The subject of this paper is a familiar one in the scholarship of Corinth: in what sense did the ancient city “end” between the 3rd and 7th centuries A.D.? This is a question that may seem best addressed from the vantage point of the urban center, with its numerous administrative and religious buildings and spaces. Yet, as Timothy Gregory has argued, the Ancient city also existed in a variety of broader spheres, in its territory and landscape, in…
The Isthmus of Corinth: Crossroads of the Mediterranean World
The narrow neck of land that joins the Peloponnese with the Greek mainland was central to the fortunes of the city of Corinth and the history of Greece from the classical Greek period to the end of the ancient world. Corinth was perfectly situated for monitoring land traffic between Athens and Sparta and overland movements between eastern and western seas. David Pettegrew's book offers a new history of the Isthmus of Corinth from the Romans' init…
The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology
The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology brings together significant work by leading scholars of the archaeology of early Christianity in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions. The thirty-four contributions to this volume ground the history, culture, and society of the first seven centuries of Christianity in archaeological method, theory, and research. Collectively the essays emphasize the link between fieldwork, archaeological met…
Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology
"The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology brings together expert work by leading scholars of the archaeology of Early Christianity and the Roman world in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions. The thirty-four contributions to this volume survey Christian material culture and ground the history, culture, and society of the first seven centuries of Christianity in archaeological method, theory, and research. The essays emphasize the l…
The Greek Communities of Harrisburg and Lancaster: A Study of Immigration, Residence, and Mobility in the City Beautiful Era
Harrisburg's urban reformers promised better housing and living conditions for all the city's residents, but the demolition of the Old Eighth Ward and the construction of more expensive housing between 1910 and 1930 made it harder for new Greek immigrants to make a living and a home in the city. This article compares demographic and geospatial data for Greek immigrant communities in Harrisburg and neighboring Lancaster to highlight the different …
Harrisburg, the City Beautiful: Recasting the History of Urban Reform in a Small American Capital
In 1980 William H. Wilson published an important essay in Pennsylvania History that defined Harrisburg's City Beautiful movement as “successful.” In his analysis, reformers galvanized citizens to vote for civic betterment. A package of amenities—pavements, clean water, drainage, and parks—improved the state capital. On this fortieth anniversary of Wilson's publication, in a year commemorating significant federal amendments granting suffrage to Af…
The Digital Harrisburg Project: Placing the Population of a Progressive Era City
Our article describes the work of the Digital Harrisburg Project in placing the population of Pennsylvania's capital city on geocoded historical maps in 1900–1930. We argue that geocoded census data—population tied to precise locations in a GIS—marks a game-changer for creating fine-grained historical pictures of human mobility and changing urban diversity. Because historical federal census tables recorded information about race, immigration, occ…
Harrisburg's Historic African American Community: An Interview with Calobe Jackson Jr
This excerpted oral history with Calobe Jackson Jr., prominent citizen and local historian, discusses Harrisburg's African American community in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, relationships between the city's black and white population, the City Beautiful movement, and the Commonwealth Monument Project
Diolkos
Diolkos is the toponymic term used by the geographer Strabo to denote the narrowest constriction of land within an isthmus. In the nineteenth century, scholars read the term as a causeway or railway used to transport ships and cargoes across the Isthmus of Corinth, a view that gained traction after the discovery of a physical limestone road on the western side of the Isthmus in the 1950s. Recent scholarship has downplayed the role of the road as …
Lechaion
Lechaion was the principal harbor of Corinth, Greece from the Archaic Greek period through Late Antiquity. As the immediate point of access for the city to the western Corinthian Gulf and the broader maritime world, it was larger and more substantial than the city's eastern harbors at Kenchreai and Schoinous. Lechaion is significant for its extensive sheltering area (15 ha), excavated interior basins, and significant Early Christian basilica whic…
Corinthian Countrysides: Linked Open Data and Analysis from the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey
Corinthian Countrysides presents the datasets, analysis, and results of a large-scale intensive survey in the eastern territory of Corinth between 1997 and 2003. Carried out under a permit of the Greek Ministry of Culture granted through the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey investigated the Isthmus west of the Corinth Canal, a highly-connected transport corridor and densely settled area f…
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