Please join us online, on Zoom, at 1:00pm (ET) on Tuesday, September 17, for the first of three Information Sessions about the ASCSA Academic Year Program. All prospective applicants to the Academic Year Program for 2025/2026 are welcome. The event requires online registration in advance.
Later sessions will be offered at 11:00am (ET) on Monday, October 21, and at 2:00pm (ET) on Wednesday, December 4.
Maria Tourna, Assistant Librarian at the Blegen Library, was recently the subject of an article in the journal, "Serials: connecting the information community", published by the United Kingdom Serials Group. Click on the link under "Read more" to read the full article.
Read MoreΔιάλεξη της ποιήτριας Ιουλίτας Ηλιοπούλου στη Γεννάδειο Βιβλιοθήκη με θέμα "Οδυσσέας Ελύτης. Στοιχεία μιας ποιητικής ταυτότητας"
Read MoreThe Aristeia Award Committee is pleased to announce that James McCredie will be the recipient of the 2012 Aristeia Award, which honors alumni/ae who have provided exceptional service to the ASCSA and have contributed in extraordinary ways to the School's mission in teaching, research, archaeological exploration, or publication.
Read MoreA Bryn Mawr College Professor and Chair of its Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology has been named the next Director of the American School starting July 1, 2012.
Read MoreMellon Professor Margie Miles reports that the third trip of the academic year was conducted in glorious weather. This year's Members have been lucky in that things usually out of view have been fortuitously made available to the group.
Read MoreSchool Director Jack Davis led the second trip of the academic year through the Deep Peloponnese. Here he gives a trip overview on this area of Greece, where the diversity and historical range of the places visited surprises even those acquainted with the area.
Read MorePoet Ioulita Iliopoulou gave this lecture on October 19, 2011 in Cotsen Hall on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the poet and painter Odysseus Elytis. Watch it now. (Lecture in Greek)
Read MoreJörg Rambach (ΛΗ’ ΕΠΚΑ) presented the first ASCSA Director's Series lecture of the season with his talk on prehistory in the Peloponessos. Watch it here.
Read MoreHellenistic material from many years of excavations at Corinth by the American School of Classical Studies formed the basis of Sarah James' dissertation on Corinthian Hellenistic fine wares.
Read MoreOn October 26, Jack Davis spoke to a crowded house at the Consulate General of Greece in New York where his lecture shed light on a little-known period — life in the Peloponnese under the Turks.
Read MoreThe number of workers at the Agora swell in summer as excavation volunteers and conservation interns join staff. Meet the intrepid workers of 2011.
Read MoreStamps on ancient ceramic containers have been documented and studied for decades through traditional methods, such as drawings, paper rubbings and photography. Chavdar Tzochev and Katie Simon are exploring the possibility of applying a new technology, which may leave the traditional means in the past.
Read MoreUPDATED! The Gennadius Library's Clean Monday celebration in New York City will have a change of venue this year to Kellari Taverna and will be held on February 27, 2012. Festivities begin at 6:30 pm. and feature great food for the Lenten season, an auction, music and dancing! Read details here.
Read MoreOn October 11, 2011 there was the Book Presentation of Gennadeion Monograph VI: “Exploring Greek Manuscripts in the Gennadius Library,”
Read MoreOn April 12, 2011, Evanthis Hatzivassiliou (University of Athens) delivered the Archives lecture, "The Americans and the Greeks, 1949-1959: Intervention and Modernization."
Read MoreOn April 5, 2011, Malcolm Wiener Visiting Research Professor Michael MacKinnon (University of Winnipeg) delivered the lecture, "Animals in the Agora: Reconstructing Cultural Life in Ancient Athens from Zooarchaeological Remains."
Read MoreThe catalog for the musical scores of composer Dimitry Levidis (1886-1951) is now available electronically through the American School's web page.
Read MoreThe American School is pleased to announce its schedule of lectures for the 2011-2012 academic year. The series will cover a broad range of topics, from prehistoric finds in Messenia to women in Mt. Athos, and from Athens economics to a lecture by Patrick Leigh Fermor's biographer.
Read MoreProfessor, archaeologist and beloved member of the School community, Fred Cooper died on Sunday, September 25.
Read MoreProfessor Agne Vlavianou Arvanite has donated to the Archives of the Gennadius Library a small number of letters from poet Kostis Palamas to Nikos Fandrides, as well as books given to Fandrides by Kostis Palamas.
Read MoreManaging Committee member and co-director of the Mt. Lykaion excavation David Romano reports that on July 30, 2011, the first trail of the proposed Parrhasian Heritage Park of the Peloponnesos was opened between Ano Karyes (Arcadia) and Neda (Messenia). The Park will protect the area of Mt. Lykaion but will also extend to protect and unify many other ancient cities and sanctuaries in the region.
Read MoreASCSA and the Cultural Society of Chora presented commemorative certificates to nearly fifty members of the community in recognition of the role they or members of their family had played in excavations of the "Palace of Nestor."
Read MoreKathimerini reporter Christina Sanoudou interviews Wiener Laboratory researchers.
Read MoreAugust is vacation time, but for School Director Jack Davis and wife Shari Stocker a trip Down Under served as a working vacation. The pair traveled to the Antipodes as guests of the Australian Archaeological Institute in Athens to participate in the Institute's Visiting Lecturer program. The indefatigable Professor Davis delivered 30 lectures in 9 cities while there.
Read MoreThe latest issue contains articles ranging from the Mycenaean to the Roman period, addressing topics as diverse as LBA ceramics from the Peloponnese, the reminting of silver coinage in Athens, the leasing of sacred land in the 4th c. B.C., and the evolving character of a Roman road at Corinth. Subscribers can read the issue on JSTOR, Hesperia’s new online home.
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