March 9, 2020
Bringing the Archives to Life: Reflections from Author Sylvie Dumont
Sylvie Dumont, Secretary and Registrar of the Agora Excavations, discusses her new publication, Vrysaki: A Neighborhood Lost in Search of the Athenian Agora.
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March 9, 2020
Videocast - Conference - The Legacy of Francesco Morosini in Crete, Athens and the Morea (January 23-24)
The video archive from our two day conference entitled "The Legacy of Francesco Morosini in Crete, Athens and the Morea" is now available.
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March 2, 2020
New Publication! Vrysaki: A Neighborhood Lost in Search of the Athenian Agora
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce the publication of Vrysaki: A Neighborhood Lost in Search of the Athenian Agora by Sylvie Dumont.
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February 25, 2020
Τελευταίες ξεναγήσεις στην έκθεση "Η κληρονομιά του Φραγκίσκου Μοροζίνι στην Κρήτη, την Αθήνα και τον Μοριά"
Η έκθεση «Η κληρονομιά του Φραγκίσκου Μοροζίνι στην Κρήτη, την Αθήνα και τον Μοριά» ολοκληρώνεται το Σάββατο 29 Φεβρουαρίου. Τα κλειδιά της πόλης των Αθηνών θα ξαναγυρίσουν στην Βερόνα και η αυλαία θα κλείσει πίσω από αυτή την ενδιαφέρουσα έκθεση της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης.
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February 25, 2020
Hands on in the Lab: Meet Wiener Lab Assistant Zoe Chalatsi
Introduced to the Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Sciences by Professor Stefania Chlouveraki, Zoe Chalatsi started working in the Lab in early 2011.
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February 24, 2020
Q&A with New Publications Project Editor Sarah Rous
A Regular and Associate Member in 2013-2015, Sarah Rous rejoins the School in the Publications department in Princeton!
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February 20, 2020
Hesperia 89.1 Now Online!
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce the publication of Hesperia 89.1. Topics in this issue include an overview of the Neolithic settlement on Tsoungiza at Ancient Nemea, an editio princeps of 21 columnar grave monuments from the Athenian Agora, a study of miniature herms that depict Alexander the Great, and a report on the 2018 excavation season at Corinth.
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February 20, 2020
Boston College High School Students Explore the Schliemann Papers
On February 19, 2020, C. Emil Peñarubia and thirteen Boston College High School students (Hyde Global Scholars program) visited the ASCSA Archives. The students were in Greece on a week long trip visiting monuments and archaeological sites in Athens and outside the city; their busy schedule included a visit to the ASCSA, to see the Heinrich Schliemann Papers.
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February 19, 2020
Βιβλίο για την Οθωμανική Αθήνα
Με μεγάλη χαρά ανακοινώνουμε την δημοσίευση του βιβλίου “Ottoman Athens: Archaeology, Topography, History” [Οθωμανική Αθήνα: Αρχαιολογία, Τοπογραφία, Ιστορία] που επιμελήθηκαν η Μαρία Γεωργοπούλου και ο Κωνσταντίνος Θανασάκης [289 σελίδες, 95 εικόνες].
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February 18, 2020
In Memoriam: Ing-Marie Raptis
Our friend and colleague Ing-Marie Raptis, after three months of struggle, has passed away on February 5, 2020.
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February 10, 2020
School Elects Two Trustees from California
The American School is pleased to announce that George M. Marcus and Charles W. Steinmetz were recently elected to its Board of Trustees.
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January 30, 2020
John Papadopoulos Speaks at the National Arts Club
On January 27, 2020, Professor John Papadopoulos presented his lecture, "New Evidence from Ancient Methone," at the historic National Arts Club in New York City.
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January 29, 2020
Group from Kalamata visits the Gennadius Library
Professor Ioannis Theodorakopoulos with a group from Kalamata, among them the former mayor Geogios Koutsoulis, visited the Gennadius Library on Saturday January 25.
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January 28, 2020
Delaware University students visit the Gennadius Library
Professors Dr. David Satran, and Dr. Tyson Sukava, visited the Gennadius Library on Wednesday, January 22, leading a group of 34 students from the University of Delaware.
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January 23, 2020
Q&A with Hesperia Fellow Ashley Eckhardt
Ashley Eckhardt, the American School’s first Hesperia Fellow, speaks about her editorial work, art historical research, and experiences at the School.
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January 23, 2020
Hunter College Students Visit the American School
Robert B. Koehl, Professor of Archaeology at the Hunter College, City University of New York, with a group of his students, visited Gennadius Library and the ASCSA Archives on Thursday, January 16.
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December 31, 2019
Winter 2019 Newsletter
Read the latest print edition of our Newsletter to find out all that is happening at the American School.
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December 18, 2019
Ξενάγηση ομάδας υπαλλήλων του Υπουργείου Μεταναστευτικής Πολιτικής στην Αμερικανική Σχολή
Με χαρά υποδεχτήκαμε στα Αρχεία της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών ομάδα υπαλλήλων από το Υπουργείο Μεταναστευτικής Πολιτικής.
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December 16, 2019
Videocast - "Euchenor's Corinth: Mycenaean Habitation from Acrocorinth to Korakou"
Mycenaean Corinth was considered non-existent for the longest time. Based on the evidence produced by the ASCSA on the site of Ancient Corinth and by the Archaeological Service in the area, I argue for wealthy Corinth.
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December 16, 2019
Q&A with First Sanev Fellow
Dr. Silvana Blazevska is the first recipient of the Voislav Sanev fellowship, which provides a North Macedonian scholar the opportunity to use the resources of the ASCSA.
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December 6, 2019
Videocast - "Erasing Macedonians: The Politics of Athenian Space in 200 B.C."
Under increasing external pressure, in 200 B.C., the Athenians abandoned the policy of strict external neutrality which they has pursued since 229, when they literally bought back their freedom from the Macedonians. Now, they declared war on King Philip V of Macedon and engaged in a period of erasing Macedonians from their inscribed documents and their cityscape.
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December 6, 2019
Videocast - "Socrates and the Health of Athens"
Socrates lived most of his adult life in a city suffering the effects of near continuous warfare (in which he took part) as well as significant epidemic disease, known generally as “the plague” described by Thucydides in memorably searing language in Book 2 of his history.
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November 25, 2019
New Book on Ottoman Athens
We are very proud to announce the publication of “Ottoman Athens: Archaeology, Topography, History” edited by Maria Georgopoulou (Director of the Gennadius Library) and Konstantinos Thanasakis [289 pages, 95 illustrations]. The book was published by the Gennadius Library and the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, with the support of the Association of the Philoi of the Gennadius Library.
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November 21, 2019
Hesperia 88.4 Now Online!
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce the publication of Hesperia 88.4. Topics in this issue include the reexamination of a multifigured Protoarchaic cup from Crete, the study of the Classical-period sculpture from the friezes of the Temple of Ares in the Athenian Agora, an exploration of the political value of timber in the 5th century, and a look at the influences of 5th-century Athenian art and civic religion on the staging of Euripides’ Ion.
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November 21, 2019
Hellenic University Club of Wilmington Hosts “Conversations with the American School”
The Hellenic University Club (HUC) of Wilmington hosted “Conversations with the American School” at the historic Hagley Museum and Library in Delaware. Originally the site of the gunpowder works founded by E. I. du Pont in 1802, Hagley is now a museum set on 235 acres of land that tell the history of American business, technology, and innovation, and its impact on the world.
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