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
Watch the video archive of our annual Open Meeting, that was held in a new virtual format. Jenifer Neils, the Director of the School, was joined, for the first time, by members of the academic staff, in a discussion on the School’s diverse initiatives.
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We are pleased to announce the publication of Hesperia 89.4. Topics in this issue include a report on recent work at the Athenian Agora Excavations, an overview of the activities of the Ancient Methone Archaeological Project, a topographic journey through Athens as led by Plato, and the presentation of a closed deposit from late-13th- to mid-14th-century Thebes.
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Every contribution made on GivingTuesday will be matched dollar for dollar, up to $50,000.
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Watch the 3rd episode of the Byzantine Dialogues by Gennadius Library with Baukje van den Berg and learn about Eustathios of Thessaloniki on Homer and Excellent Oratory.
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On the occasion of Baukje van den Berg's webinar on Eustathios of Thessaloniki (November 24, 2020), watch a short video on one of the treasures of the Gennadius Library.
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Watch a spectacular webinar on the archaeological project of ancient Methone (AMAP). In this film you will take deep dive into the complexities of a modern archaeological project.
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“Twelve Decades of Discovery” takes top prize in Educational Section of 20th International Archaeological Film Festival of the Bidasoa
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Ένα νέο βιβλίο για τον συγγραφέα Άγγελο Τερζάκη (1907-1979), κορυφαίο εκπρόσωπο της περίφημης "Γενιάς του 1930", δημοσιεύτηκε πριν από λίγο καιρό. Βασισμένο σε έρευνα στο προσωπικό αρχείο του Τερζάκη που φυλάσσεται στα Αρχεία της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών, ο συγγραφέας του, Θανάσης Αγάθος, διερευνά τη σχέση του Τερζάκη με τον ελληνικό κινηματογράφο της δεκαετίας του 1950.
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Interested to know more about the Red Monastery Church, located in the Egyptian desert? Watch our latest, Byzantine Dialogues webinar, with Professor Elizabeth Bolman as she discusses this remarkable conservation project.
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Watch the video archive of our webinar with Edward M. Harris, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at Durham University, were we discuss how we can better understand the history of slavery in Ancient Greece from the slave’s perspective by reading "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass."
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In honor of University Press Week (November 9–13, 2020), ASCSA Publications celebrates the local voices of Vrysaki: A Neighborhood Lost in Search of the Athenian Agora.
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Watch our fourth episode of our "Live from the Agora" series, with Professor John Camp, Director of Excavations and enjoy a unique in-depth look at some of the most important finds on display in the Stoa of Attalos today!
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Παρακολουθήστε την διαδικτυακή διάλεξη την οποία διοργάνωσε ο Σύλλογος Φίλων της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης, με θέμα "Ιών Δραγούμης: Από το εγώ στις μυλόπετρες της ιστορίας", με ομιλητές τους, Θεόδωρο Σωτηρόπουλο, πρέσβη ε.τ. και Αλέξη Αλεξανδρή, πρέσβη ε.τ. και ιστορικό. (Η διάλεξη πραγατοποιήθηκε στα Ελληνικά)
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Watch our webinar on Ion Dragoumis that was organised by The Philoi (Association of Friends of the Gennadius Library), with former ambassadors, Theodore Sotiropoulos and Alexis Alexandris. (The webinar is in Greek)
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Please read our latest information on traveling to Greece and the American School during COVID-19.
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Τα Αρχεία της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών στην Αθήνα απέκτησαν πρόσφατα δύο φωτογραφίες των ποιητών Τάκη Σινόπουλου και Γιώργη Παυλόπουλου, οι οποίες θα προστεθούν στα προσωπικά τους αρχεία που φυλάσσονται στην ΑΣΚΣΑ.
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First African American student of the American School to be honored with a bedroom in the renovated Student Center.
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Watch “A Story of Philhellenism: The History of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens” hosted by the NHS.
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We celebrate sixty years of our affiliated excavations on the Cycladic island of Kea (Tzia) with a special webinar.
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Watch the inaugural episode—featuring Professor Papaioannou—of a new series of Byzantine webinars from the Gennadius Library.
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Η Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη απέκτησε μία εξαιρετικά σπάνια έκδοση ενός από τα πιο εμβληματικά έργα οθωμανικής προπαγάνδας του 1916. Με τον τίτλο «Εκδίκηση», ο χάρτης αποτυπώνει το θρήνο για την απώλεια πολλών οθωμανικών περιοχών στην Ευρώπη κατά τη διάρκεια των Βαλκανικών Πολέμων, αποδίδοντας -με δραματικό τόνο- τα χαμένα εδάφη ‘λουσμένα’ σε μαύρο χρώμα.
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The NHS hosted Professors Diane Cline, Eric Cline, Nancy Klein, and Kevin Glowacki for another engaging episode of "Classics Couples."
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The Gennadius Library purchased a very rare issue of one of the most iconic Ottoman works of visual propaganda. Entitled ‘Revenge,’ the map laments the loss of numerous European Ottoman territories during the Balkan Wars, with the forfeited lands dramatically bathed in black.
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Watch a very interesting webinar on Ion Dragoumis, a legendary figure in the Greek imagination because of his untimely death, by Professor, Roderick Beaton.
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