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.
Friends, colleagues and students gathered at Dionysos taverna last night to pay tribute to retiring numismatist Orestes Zervos. Orestes has been the numismatist of Corinth Excavations since 1980 and has curated a collection of nearly 100,000 coins.
Read MoreA new volume from the Wiener Laboratory, launched in Athens on February 12, provides a state-of-the-art account of the way in which the study of human skeletal remains is shedding new light on the archaeology of Greece.
Read MoreNext up in the ASCSA Director’s Lecture Series: Videocast of Professor Jenifer Neils, Case Western Reserve University, on the Parthenon Sculptures. This lecture was presented Tuesday, February 3 at Cotsen Hall.
Read MoreVideocast of the Cotsen Fund Lecture Series of the ASCSA on January 27, 2009. Speakers: Ms. Bet McLeod, Curator, Department of Prehistory and Europe, British Museum; Dr. Eugenia Gerousi, Director of the 23rd Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities; and Dr. Maria Georgopoulou, Director, the Gennadius Library.
Read MoreFebruary 18th event celebrating novelist and playwright Angelos Terzakis organized by the Archives of the Gennadius Library.
Read MoreSchool Member Philip Sapirstein recently completed his PhD and speaks here of a decade working in Corinth and his interest in ceramic roofing technology in Archaic Greek architecture. Phil is currently Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Read MoreThe Super Bowl was cause for partying and intermittent napping as School members stayed tuned to the Big Game until the wee hours of the morning.
Read MoreThe unique material of 35 of Johannes Gennadius’s scrapbooks (photographs, engravings, press clippings, notecards and other ephemera) is available digitally at the Gennadius Digital Library.
Read MoreΤο ενδιαφέρον υλικό 35 λευκωμάτων του Ιωάννη Γεννάδιου (φωτογραφίες, γκραβούρες, αποκόμματα τύπου, επιστολικά δελτάρια και διάφορα εφήμερα) είναι πλέον διαθέσιμο στην ψηφιακή βιβλιοθήκη της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης.
Read MoreNew electronic publication on the life and the collections of Johannes Gennadius available online.
Read MoreThe School is saddened to announce that long-time School Librarian Mary Zelia Pease Philippides has passed away at age 103.
Read MoreSmall snippets from life in the village of Ancient Corinth since late 2008 including the conference honoring the sesquicentennial anniversary of New Corinth, Menes Arberorres, the baptism of Georgia Kakourou, a rescue excavation, and an addition to the local souvlaki joint's menu.
Read MoreASCSA continues its 2008-09 lecture series with the January 20, 2009 presentation, "A River Runs Through It: The Vorotan Project, Southern Armenia" by Professor Susan Alcock, Brown University.
Read MoreThe ASCSA Director was recently invited to give two lectures in Croatia.
Read MoreCorinth and the Corinthia were well represented at the 2009 annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America.
Read MoreThe American Library Association named ASCSA its Digital Library of the Week in the December 24, 2008 issue of its electronic newsletter.
Read MoreThis long-awaited seminal work by John W. Hayes, one of the world's leading experts on Roman pottery, will be an essential reference work for scholars throughout the Mediterranean.
Read MoreIn Hesperia Suppl. 38, Michael B. Walbank presents the editiones principes of 100 fragmentary inscriptions from the Athenian Agora, providing new insights into the workings of the Athenian state.
Read MoreASCSA initiates its lecture series with selected speakers now available on videocast. This lecture was given Nov. 18, 2008 by Professor Peter van Minnen, University of Cincinnati, and entitled “Alexandria in the Age of Augustus: The View from Cleopatra’s Palace (via Green Mummifiers).”
Read MoreAngeliki E. Laiou, one of the world’s leading historians of the Byzantine empire and of the Crusades, died on December 11, 2008. Ms. Laiou was a past ASCSA Samuel E. Kress Professor as well as an advisor and lecturer at the Gennadius Library. She is remembered here by Gennadius Library Director Maria Georgopoulou.
Read MoreSummer Session '08 participant Mindy Wolfrom describes her six-week tour of the best of archaeological Greece. As she explains, it's not "just" about the ruins. Through the students' varied backgrounds and a series of thought-provoking onsite discussions by their leader Gerald Lalonde and others, she gained an understanding of ancient Greece through a modern lens.
Read MoreGetting a find out of the ground is only the beginning of the story, as Conservator Amandina Anastassiades and Assistant Conservator Karen Lovén demonstrate in this case study of a coin hoard from the Agora Excavations’ conservation lab. (Updated for 2009)
Read MoreSarah Lepinski was recently conferred her PhD for her work on Roman wall paintings in Corinth's Panayia Field, and she will soon publish the first extensive study of pigments from Roman Greece. She writes here of her time at the ASCSA and the Corinth Excavations.
Read MoreA message from the Board of Trustees on the state of the School during these turbulent times.
Read MoreThe American School invites members and alumni on its trip to Central Anatolia on May 2-15, 2009. Find itinerary and registration details here.
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