Texts, Manuscripts, Editions:
Greek Palaeography, the Transmission of Texts, and Textual Criticism
2025/2026 Winter-term (November through January) Hybrid, non-credit seminar, with the generous support of Dumbarton Oaks
Application deadline: April 15, 2025
The National Arts Club presents a lecture by Alan Shapiro, internationally renowned scholar and retired Johns Hopkins Professor. He discusses Athenian National Hero Theseus.
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Esteemed scholar made immeasurable contributions to the American School and the field of Classics.
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Watch the recording of our 39th Annual Walton Lecture with Professor Greenblatt
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Remembering Evi Touloupa (1924-2021), Ephor of Acropolis and a friend of the School.
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Giant of the American School and Classics community passes away.
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A capacity crowd attended Cotsen Hall and thousands more watched online as Dr. Peter Frankopan delivered his first lecture of the Thalia Potamianos Annual Lecture Series.
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We were happy to receive 27 members of the Schliemann Gesellschaft from Ankershagen, Germany, who were on a tour of Greece, on the occasion of Heinrich Schliemann's 200th birth anniversary.
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We are pleased to announce the publication of Hesperia 90.3! Topics in this issue include a reexamination of the dedicatory inscription for the first Doric temple in Sicily, a look at the work of shipwrights and naval architects in Classical Athens, the publication of the Classical-period pediments, metopes, and akroteria from the Temple of Ares (Temple of Athena Pallenis), and a review of the Athenian funerary reliefs that depict women in Isiac dress.
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In 1971, more than 10,000 Greeks, singing the national anthem and Mikis Theodorakis’s musical version of Seferis's “Denial” (Άρνηση), followed the car that carried his body from Plaka to the First Cemetery.
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After one year with no regular program, due to COVID-19 pandemic, ASCSA students are back in the library.
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Campaign is more than halfway toward its $1 million goal thanks to a generous matching grant.
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World-renowned historian and award-winning author will give lecture, "Global Greece: A History," on October 7, 2021.
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Ο Νώντας Τσίγκας δημοσιεύει τα λεγόμενα "κρυμμένα" ημερολόγια (Οκτώβριος 1912 - Αύγουστος 1913) από το Αρχείο του Ίωνος Δραγούμη στην Αμερικανική Σχολή Κλασικών Σπουδών στην Αθήνα.
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School’s administrative headquarters relocates to Wall Street in Princeton.
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The Byroniana collection of the Gennadius Library that focuses on Lord Byron, contains a valuable testimony from Messolonghi: a very rare issue of the newspaper The Greek Chronicles (issue 29) that announces his death.
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Στη Byroniana, τη συλλογή της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης που επικεντρώνεται στο Λόρδο Βύρωνα, υπάρχει μια πολύτιμη μαρτυρία από το Μεσολόγγι: το φύλλο 29 των Ελληνικών Χρονικών με την ανακοίνωση του θανάτου του.
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Burke begins three-year appointment as the new Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Classical Studies.
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“Twelve Decades of Discovery” garners second award.
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We are pleased to announce that as of Monday June 14, both Gennadius and Blegen Library will be open for registered users, by appointment.
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The American School is pleased to announce the release of its annual report covering the 2019–2020 academic year.
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Watch our latest webinar with Professor Santelli and learn how humanitarian aid to Greece, following the Greek Revolution of 1821, initially became an appropriate outlet for women and later played a key role in the abolitionist movement.
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We are pleased to announce the publication of Hesperia 90.2! Topics in this issue include Hittite-Mycenaean relations in the Late Bronze Age, a rescue excavation in northern Piraeus, the inscriptions from Panakton, the so-called oracle of the dead at Tainaron, and the evidence for a Phrygian sculptor working in the Athenian Agora during the 3rd century A.D.
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Watch our latest Live from Lab webinar, and discover the importance of purple dye production in the Bronze Age Aegean.
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Watch our latest webinar with Vangelis Raptopoulos and travel through the beautiful allegories that we find in the texts of Nikos Kazantzakis. *The webinar is in Greek.
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Παρακολουθήστε την πρόσφατη διαδικτυακή ομιλία με τον Βαγγέλη Ραπτόπουλος και ταξιδέψτε με τις αλληγορίες του Νίκου Καζαντζάκη.
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