June 10, 2015
Hesperia 84.2 Now Online!
Topics in this issue include the lower portion of the Sanctuary of Zeus on Mt. Lykaion, the results of excavations at the Nemean Sanctuary of Zeus, a reassessment of the Southeast Fountain House, and an analysis of the inscription Agora I 5178.
Read MoreJune 8, 2015
Malcolm Wiener Awarded Gold Cross by the Hellenic Republic
In a special ceremony at the Embassy of Greece in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, June 3, 2015, ASCSA Trustee Chairman Malcolm Hewitt Wiener was awarded the Gold Cross of the Order of Honor by the Hellenic Republic for his contribution to the study of Aegean Prehistory.
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June 5, 2015
VIDEOCAST - The Ottoman Monuments of Athens
Machiel Kiel will give a lecture on "The Ottoman Monuments of Athens: Remarks on their dates of construction, identity of their patrons and their place in the general framework of Ottoman Architecture".
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June 5, 2015
VIDEOCAST - International Conference: “Athens and Attica in Prehistory
ASCSA, Ministry of Culture, Faculty of History and Archaeology, University of Athens, and the Museum of Cycladic Art
Read MoreJune 2, 2015
Interim Board President Appointed
William T. Loomis has been appointed Acting President of the Board, filling in for Robert A. McCabe who is taking a leave of absence.
Read MoreMay 28, 2015
Graduate Students of the Athens, Patras, and Aegean Universities at the ASCSA
Μεταπτυχιακοί φοιτητές των πανεπιστημίων Αθηνών, Πατρών και Αιγαίου στην ΑΣΚΣΑ
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Colgate University Students at the Wiener Lab
Rebecca Ammerman, professor of Classics at the University of Colgate, and fourteen of her students visited the Wiener Lab.
Read MoreMay 25, 2015
Unconventional Living Arrangements: The “Quartet” of Ploutarchou Street
Παράδοξη συγκατοίκηση: το "κουαρτέτο της οδού Πλουτάρχου". Από τον Δημήτρη Ρηγὀπουλο στην Καθημερινή της Κυριακής (24/5/20015).
Read MoreMay 20, 2015
University of Chicago Students at the ASCSA
Jonathan Hall, professor of Classics at the University of Chicago, and fifteen of his students visited the American School of Classical Studies as part of a study-abroad program entitled "Greek Antiquity and Its Legacy."
Read MoreMay 19, 2015
Corinth Excavations 2015: Midseason Photos
Corinth Excavations has reached the midpoint of the 2015 excavation season with three teams digging in the Frankish area south of Temple E and two teams in the Agonotheteion of the South Stoa.
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May 18, 2015
Eutychia Mosaic Conservation
The conservation team, Nicol Anastassatou, Charis Delis and Spyros Armenis, continues their work on the Agonotheteion mosaic with enthusiasm made possible by a generous grant from the Stockman Family Foundation. They are now in the process of removing the mortar substratum, into which the tesserae were set initially, from each of the pieces of the mosaic.
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Schliemann Aficionados at the Gennadius Library
On the initiative of Alfonso Lucini Mateo, Ambassador of Spain to Athens, and his wife, Carmen Serrano de Haro, architect of the Spanish Ministry of Public Treasury, a small group of Spanish intellectuals visited the Archives of the Gennadius Library on the evening of May 14th, 2015.
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May 11, 2015
VIDEOCAST - Σαν τα παλιά τα παραμύθια
Αφήγηση παραμυθιών για μικρούς και μεγάλους Σάσα Βούλγαρη
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May 8, 2015
VIDEOCAST - Της Μοίρας το Χρυσό Δαχτυλίδι
Αφήγηση παραμυθιών για ενήλικο κοινό Σάσα Βούλγαρη
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May 8, 2015
VIDEOCAST - The Mystic Lettrist ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Bistami and the Origins of Ottoman Historical
Cornell Fleischer, Kanuni Suleyman Professor, Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies, University of Chicago
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Students from University of Michigan visiting the ASCSA
Artemis Leontis, professor of Modern Greek in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan, and eight of her students visited the the Archives of the American School of Classical Studies as part of a 10-day study tour of Athens, Santorini, and Delphi.
Read MoreMay 5, 2015
Climate change, human population growth, or both?
"Climate change, human population growth, or both? Upper Paleolithic subsistence shifts in southern Greece". Dr. Maria Ntinou, former Wiener Laboratory Fellow has published this recent article in Quaternary International (under her affiliation with the lab).
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April 28, 2015
VIDEOCAST - Telling the Whole Story at Multi-Period Sites
WORKSHOP Athens Society of the Archaeological Institute οf America and ASCSA
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April 28, 2015
VIDEOCAST - The Topography of Ottoman Athens. Archaeology & Travel - Symposium
A two-day symposium (April 23-24) featured twelve lectures that explored the topography of Ottoman Athens in Cotsen Hall in conjunction with the exhibition "Ottoman Athens, 1458-1833".
Read MoreApril 27, 2015
Students from Athens University Conducting Archival Research at ASCSA
Φοιτητές του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών και αρχειακή έρευνα στην ΑΚΣΚΑ
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Symposium on Ottoman Athens Concluded
Λήξη των εργασιών του συμποσίου για την Οθωμανική Αθήνα
Read MoreApril 22, 2015
Rare Photos of Loring Hall from 1931
Surfing the catalog of Lucy Shoe Meritt’s papers in the Bryn Mawr College Special Collections, I came across information about Loring Hall among the visual materials.
Read MoreApril 21, 2015
Students from Athens University visiting the ASCSA Archives
Φοιτητές του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών στα Αρχεία της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών
Read MoreApril 17, 2015
Karl Henning and Heinrich Schliemann
In the Heinrich Schliemann Papers in the Archives of the Gennadius Library, there are four letters preserved from the correspondence between these two learned men: three from Karl Henning and one from Schliemann.
Read MoreApril 15, 2015
Schliemann’s Calypso
What does Schliemann have to do with the beginnings of Classical Archaeology at the University of Basel in Switzerland?
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