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
Please read our updates concerning the 2020 - 2021 Academic Year
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Watch a lecture by our Doreen Canaday Spitzer Archivist, Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan
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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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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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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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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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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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A Regular and Associate Member in 2013-2015, Sarah Rous rejoins the School in the Publications department in Princeton!
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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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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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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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Our friend and colleague Ing-Marie Raptis, after three months of struggle, has passed away on February 5, 2020.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Read the latest print edition of our Newsletter to find out all that is happening at the American School.
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Με χαρά υποδεχτήκαμε στα Αρχεία της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών ομάδα υπαλλήλων από το Υπουργείο Μεταναστευτικής Πολιτικής.
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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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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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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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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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