ABSTRACT
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 its ex-urban villas, farmsteads, harbors, and rural sanctuaries. Gregory’s recognition of the centrality of the territory in his discussions of the local world is indeed among his most important contributions to Post-Classical studies (Hall and Caraher, this volume). This paper shows how recent archaeological research in Corinth’s eastern landscape, the Isthmus, provides new insights about the end of this famous city in Late Antiquity.
