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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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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November 4, 2015
Alan L. Boegehold, 1927-2015
Professor of Classics, Chair of the ASCA Managing Committee, and Poet
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October 27, 2015
Chrysanthe Pantages
Chrysanthe Pantages felt honored to have enjoyed such a whirlwind and enriching six weeks ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
Read MoreSeptember 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.”
Read MoreSeptember 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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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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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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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
Read MoreAugust 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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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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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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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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Greek President Tours the Gennadius Library
President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos visited the ASCSA on June 29 and toured the Gennadius Library, where he was shown the Library's treasures.
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June 26, 2015
Corinth Ends 2015 Season
Our 2015 excavation season at Corinth has come to a successful end as the third session supervisors wrap up their final reports over the next week. Also we highlight 3D scanning at Peirene fountain by Cyark.
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President and Vice-President of Haverford College Visit the Gennadius Library
Daniel Weiss, president of Haverford College, and friends visit the Gennadius Library
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