ASCSA Newsletter

VIDEOCAST - Βλέμματα εκ του μακρόθεν: Άγιον Όρος και γυναίκες της Δύσεως,1880-1980

November 18, 2015

VIDEOCAST - Βλέμματα εκ του μακρόθεν: Άγιον Όρος και γυναίκες της Δύσεως,1880-1980

Βλέμματα εκ του μακρόθεν: Άγιον Όρος και γυναίκες της Δύσεως,1880-1980 Veronica della Dora, Chair of Human Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London

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VIDEOCAST - Sikyon in Context

November 18, 2015

VIDEOCAST - Sikyon in Context

Prof. Yannis Lolos (Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly)

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November 17, 2015

Hesperia 84.4 Now Online!

Topics in this issue include the imagery on Tanagran larnakes, social networks and Athenian democracy, a Panathenaic victor list, Pausanias and the Archaic Agora, and the mosque/church within the Pylos Fortress.

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November 11, 2015

School-Affiliated Excavation at Pylos Uncovers Ancient Warrior’s Tomb

The intact shaft tomb of a wealthy, Bronze Age warrior buried solo ca.1500 B.C. was discovered by a team led by former School Director Jack Davis and his wife Shari Stocker. The burial contains one of the most significant displays of prehistoric era riches discovered in mainland Greece in the past 65 years.

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Wiener Laboratory Assists with Analyzing Archaic-Period Cemetery at Phaleron

November 11, 2015

Wiener Laboratory Assists with Analyzing Archaic-Period Cemetery at Phaleron

The Laboratory was recently granted permission to study the cemetery at Phaleron — one of the most significant necropoleis in Attica during the Archaic Period.

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Alan L. Boegehold, 1927-2015

November 4, 2015

Alan L. Boegehold, 1927-2015

Professor of Classics, Chair of the ASCA Managing Committee, and Poet

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Chrysanthe Pantages

October 27, 2015

Chrysanthe Pantages

Chrysanthe Pantages felt honored to have enjoyed such a whirlwind and enriching six weeks ...

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Lizzy Ten-Hove

October 13, 2015

Lizzy Ten-Hove

Lizzy Ten-Hove expected a crash course in the topography and material culture of ancient Greece. "What I wasn't expecting was everything else!"

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Richard Freed

October 7, 2015

Richard Freed

Richard Freed, Summer Session II, 2009: "My ASCSA summer session in Greece was a transformative experience

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Nick Cross

October 7, 2015

Nick Cross

Nick Cross, attended the 2015 ASCSA Summer Session I, is a graduate student in Ancient History at the City University of New York.

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Kyle Zawacki

October 7, 2015

Kyle Zawacki

Kyle Zawacki, teacher in high school social studies at the Huron Schools in New Boston, MI, at the Parthenon in Athens. Zawacki participated in 2015 Summer Sessions II and was the recipient of the ASCSA Rea Silvia Borza scholarship.

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October 7, 2015

Corinth Photographers Leave their Collection to the ASCSA

In 1959 two young women, Ino Ioannidou and Lenio Bartziotou, opened a photographic studio in Athens on 9 Valaoritou.

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September 28, 2015

Distinguised Guests from the Carnegie Council at the Gennadius Library

Joel H. Rosenthal, president of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, and Stephen D. Hibbard, vice chairman of the Carnegie Council and a partner at Shearman & Sterling, visited the Gennadius Library on September 16th, 2015, in the company of GL Overseer Phaedon Tamvakakis.

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VIDEOCAST - How Did Democracy Work in Ancient Athens?

September 18, 2015

VIDEOCAST - How Did Democracy Work in Ancient Athens?

Dr. Kevin F. Daly, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Classical Studies, ASCSA

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September 17, 2015

Archaeodiet in the Greek World Published

Archaeodiet in the Greek World: Dietary Reconstruction from Stable Isotope Analysis, edited by Anastasia Papathanasiou, Michael P. Richards, and Sherry C. Fox, is now published and available for sale.

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September 15, 2015

More Schliemann Aficionados at the Gennadius Library

One of Spain's most famous architects and painters Juan Navarro Baldeweg and his wife visited the Gennadius Library last week having one wish: to see Heinrich Schliemann's notebooks

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September 11, 2015

The 2015 – 2016 Academic Year Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory Fellows Projects

The Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory Committee awarded five new fellowships for the 2015- 2016 academic year. Dr. McNamee (Post-Doctoral Research Fellow) is on her second year of her project entitled: “Starches and Grains: Reconstructing Subsistence in Mainland Greece through the Bronze Age.”

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September 10, 2015

ASCSA Lends Venues, Voices to Global Democracy Forum

School Director Jim Wright and Mellon Professor Kevin Daly will be participating in this forum on September 14-16 sponsored by the International New York Times and held in part in the School's Cotsen Hall and the Stoa of Attalos.

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September 8, 2015

ASCSA Student Associate Member, Marie-Philippine Montagné

Ms Marie-Philippine Montagné (University of Aix- Marseille, France) made use of the Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory facilities for her study on use-wear analysis of obsidian and flint Bronze Age tools.

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September 8, 2015

Tübingen University postgraduate student, Lucia Leierer

Ms Lucia Leierer (Tübingen University, Work group Prehistory and Archaeology Science, Geoarchaeology) visited the Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for a week in the context of the Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory- Tübingen University Memorandum of Understanding.

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VIDEOCAST - ΟΞΥΔΕΡΚΕΙΝ ΑΤ KORAKOU: A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF C.W.BLEGEN’S 1915-1916 EXCAVATIONS

September 7, 2015

VIDEOCAST - ΟΞΥΔΕΡΚΕΙΝ ΑΤ KORAKOU: A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF C.W.BLEGEN’S 1915-1916 EXCAVATIONS

A Conference sponsored by the Institute of Aegean Prehistory and by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens Athens and Corinth, September 4-6, 2015

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August 31, 2015

Hesperia 84.3 Now Online!

Topics in this issue include the excavations at Gournia as well as those conducted at the Athenian Agora, the term of the treasurers of Athena, a Boiotian red-figure calyx krater, the hands and dating of Athenian dramatic festival inscriptions, and the use of spolia in William of Moerbeke's church at Merbaka.

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August 12, 2015

Annual Report for 2013-2014 Available Online

The annual report of the School for 2013-2014 has been published and is now available to download.

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July 21, 2015

The Hellenic Initiative, Quicken Loans Visit the School

The ASCSA continued to host more visitors throughout the month of June as leadership from The Hellenic Initiative and a group from Quicken Loans were introduced to the work of the School.

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July 9, 2015

An Old Friend Visits the ASCSA

Michael Tremonte, ASCSA Regular Member 1989-1990, and his wife Joanna Riesman visited the School's Archives and the Gennadius Library

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