October 14, 2016

Seminar of Textual Interpretation visits the Gennadius Library

The Gennadius Library generously shared treasures from their rare collection of books with a group of scholars studying textual interpretation.

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VIDEOCAST - Fairy Tale Logic: The Philosophy of Mythology through the Eyes of Poetry

October 12, 2016

VIDEOCAST - Fairy Tale Logic: The Philosophy of Mythology through the Eyes of Poetry

Ginger F. Zaimis is an American poet, essayist and polymath who specializes in architectural forms. She is the Arts and Literary Chair (Greece) for the International Friends of Bibliotheca Alexandrina, The Library of Alexandria.

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October 11, 2016

Meet a Member: Minerva Alganza-Roldán

Meet Minerva Alganza-Roldán, ia Senior Associate Member and a research fellow in the Polymnia Research Network of Ancient and Modern Mythographers.

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September 29, 2016

New Podcast Will Educate About Illicitly Traded Antiquities

Alumna Zoë Kontes was recently awarded a Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Fellowship to create a podcast that tells the stories of illicitly traded antiquities.

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September 28, 2016

Meet a Member: Julia Shear

Meet Julia Shear, a Senior Associate Member working on her second book about the Panathenaia and the construction of Athenian identities

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VIDEOCAST - Glimpses of the Past in the Cultural Expressions of Greece and Turkey - Session I

September 27, 2016

VIDEOCAST - Glimpses of the Past in the Cultural Expressions of Greece and Turkey - Session I

History in Motion: Relating the Past through Cinema and Televized Serials Yannis Papadopoulos & Thanassis Agathos, “Byzantium in Greek Cinema and Television”

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September 21, 2016

Annual Report 2014-2015

The 2014-15 interactive edition of the report is now online.

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September 17, 2016

ASCSA Alumni Bring Ancient Roman Cooking to Life

Kiki Aranita and Chris Vacca both used to teach Ancient Greek, but now teach an Ancient Roman cooking class

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VIDEOCAST - The New York Times : Athens Democracy Forum - Ancient Democracy & Religion, Migration.

September 16, 2016

VIDEOCAST - The New York Times : Athens Democracy Forum - Ancient Democracy & Religion, Migration.

Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounelakis, Josiah Ober, Tsakopoulos-Kounelakis, Michel Zaboulakis, David Lewis,

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September 13, 2016

News and Events Schedule Set for 2016-17

The New York Times Democracy Forum and the Nights of Classical Music at the Gennadeion highlight a year of stimulating lectures and events ahead.

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September 5, 2016

Meet a Member: Marion Meyer

Meet Marion Meyer, a classical archaeologist who teaches in Vienna but returns to the ASCSA every summer to continue her research on the early cult of Athena.

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August 31, 2016

Revisiting Greece Through Painting

Former member Brian Nolan has not been to Greece in years, but he often paints scenes of Meteora and Crete.

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August 29, 2016

Meet a Member: Ross Brendle

Meet Ross Brendle, a visiting student associate member at the American School of Classical Studies, working on a PhD in Classical Art and Archaeology.

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Mapping Antiquity

August 24, 2016

Mapping Antiquity

Scholar and former diplomat Brady Kiesling is on a mission to map the world of Ancient Greece

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Through the Eyes of an Archaeologist

August 22, 2016

Through the Eyes of an Archaeologist

Our new video gives a peek of what an excavation looks like through the eyes of an archaeologist

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August 19, 2016

The New Pausanias

Summer Session Student Matthew Cartier talks about his blog and his summer session experience.

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August 18, 2016

A Life at the Agora

Come travel with us as we pay tribute to John Camp's amazing 50 years at the Agora through this inspiring 6 minute video.

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David Romano Reflects on Mt. Lykaion Discovery

August 17, 2016

David Romano Reflects on Mt. Lykaion Discovery

“We had been expecting something like this ever since we began excavating at the altar in 2007,” admitted Romano.

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Work of ASCSA-Affiliated Project leads to First Pre-Neolithic Artifacts on Display in Crete

August 16, 2016

Work of ASCSA-Affiliated Project leads to First Pre-Neolithic Artifacts on Display in Crete

The new temporary archaeological museum in Rethmynon now exhibits the first pre-Neolithic artifacts (>7000 B.C.) found on Crete which were discovered by the Plakias Mesolithic Survey, a synergasia project of the ASCSA and the Ephoreia of Palaeoanthropology and Speleology

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VIDEOCAST - An Earthly Paradise. Μπαξές, Περιβόλι and Ύπαιθρος in the Aegean

August 11, 2016

VIDEOCAST - An Earthly Paradise. Μπαξές, Περιβόλι and Ύπαιθρος in the Aegean

Harriet Blitzer, Professor of Art History, Buffalo State College

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August 11, 2016

New Finds at Mt. Lykaion

New discoveries at Mt. Lykaion could confirm ancient tales of human sacrifice in Greece

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August 10, 2016

Meet a Member: Petra Vaiglova

Meet Petra Vaiglova is the pre-doctoral fellow at the Wiener lab, working on a PhD in archaeological science

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August 10, 2016

Hesperia 85.3 Now Online!

Topics in this issue include evidence from Isthmia for structures that predate the Roman Bath, the special nature of the ceramic assemblage of room 60 at Pylos, the dedicatory inscription of the Stoa of Attalos, a new analysis of the battle scene on the Pydna Monument, and a reconstruction of the cult group of the Agora's Temple of Ares.

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August 5, 2016

Gennadius Librarian takes course on incunabula

Irini Solomonidi attended a course on incunabula at the Institut d’histoire du livre in Lyon.

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August 5, 2016

New Acquisitions on Display

Some of the most important recent acquisitions of the Gennadius Library are on display in the Reading Room.

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