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
Historic institution has been preserving, protecting, and promoting Greece's past for 140 years.
Read MoreThe National Arts Club presents a lecture by Alan Shapiro, internationally renowned scholar and retired Johns Hopkins Professor. He discusses Athenian National Hero Theseus.
Read MoreEsteemed scholar made immeasurable contributions to the American School and the field of Classics.
Read MoreWatch the recording of our 39th Annual Walton Lecture with Professor Greenblatt
Read MoreRemembering Evi Touloupa (1924-2021), Ephor of Acropolis and a friend of the School.
Read MoreGiant of the American School and Classics community passes away.
Read MoreA capacity crowd attended Cotsen Hall and thousands more watched online as Dr. Peter Frankopan delivered his first lecture of the Thalia Potamianos Annual Lecture Series.
Read MoreWe were happy to receive 27 members of the Schliemann Gesellschaft from Ankershagen, Germany, who were on a tour of Greece, on the occasion of Heinrich Schliemann's 200th birth anniversary.
Read MoreWe are pleased to announce the publication of Hesperia 90.3! Topics in this issue include a reexamination of the dedicatory inscription for the first Doric temple in Sicily, a look at the work of shipwrights and naval architects in Classical Athens, the publication of the Classical-period pediments, metopes, and akroteria from the Temple of Ares (Temple of Athena Pallenis), and a review of the Athenian funerary reliefs that depict women in Isiac dress.
Read MoreIn 1971, more than 10,000 Greeks, singing the national anthem and Mikis Theodorakis’s musical version of Seferis's “Denial” (Άρνηση), followed the car that carried his body from Plaka to the First Cemetery.
Read MoreAfter one year with no regular program, due to COVID-19 pandemic, ASCSA students are back in the library.
Read MoreCampaign is more than halfway toward its $1 million goal thanks to a generous matching grant.
Read MoreWorld-renowned historian and award-winning author will give lecture, "Global Greece: A History," on October 7, 2021.
Read MoreΟ Νώντας Τσίγκας δημοσιεύει τα λεγόμενα "κρυμμένα" ημερολόγια (Οκτώβριος 1912 - Αύγουστος 1913) από το Αρχείο του Ίωνος Δραγούμη στην Αμερικανική Σχολή Κλασικών Σπουδών στην Αθήνα.
Read MoreSchool’s administrative headquarters relocates to Wall Street in Princeton.
Read MoreThe Byroniana collection of the Gennadius Library that focuses on Lord Byron, contains a valuable testimony from Messolonghi: a very rare issue of the newspaper The Greek Chronicles (issue 29) that announces his death.
Read MoreΣτη Byroniana, τη συλλογή της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης που επικεντρώνεται στο Λόρδο Βύρωνα, υπάρχει μια πολύτιμη μαρτυρία από το Μεσολόγγι: το φύλλο 29 των Ελληνικών Χρονικών με την ανακοίνωση του θανάτου του.
Read MoreBurke begins three-year appointment as the new Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Classical Studies.
Read More“Twelve Decades of Discovery” garners second award.
Read MoreWe are pleased to announce that as of Monday June 14, both Gennadius and Blegen Library will be open for registered users, by appointment.
Read MoreThe American School is pleased to announce the release of its annual report covering the 2019–2020 academic year.
Read MoreWatch our latest webinar with Professor Santelli and learn how humanitarian aid to Greece, following the Greek Revolution of 1821, initially became an appropriate outlet for women and later played a key role in the abolitionist movement.
Read MoreWe are pleased to announce the publication of Hesperia 90.2! Topics in this issue include Hittite-Mycenaean relations in the Late Bronze Age, a rescue excavation in northern Piraeus, the inscriptions from Panakton, the so-called oracle of the dead at Tainaron, and the evidence for a Phrygian sculptor working in the Athenian Agora during the 3rd century A.D.
Read MoreWatch our latest Live from Lab webinar, and discover the importance of purple dye production in the Bronze Age Aegean.
Read MoreWatch our latest webinar with Vangelis Raptopoulos and travel through the beautiful allegories that we find in the texts of Nikos Kazantzakis. *The webinar is in Greek.
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