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
Watch a replay of our Virtual Gala honoring Curtis Runnels.
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Watch our latest webinar that was organized by the Association of the Friends of the Gennadius Library, with Dr. Dimakopoloulou.
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Read the latest edition of our Newsletter to find out what is happening at the American School.
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Watch our the latest webinar by Gennadius Library with Professor Gallant, and learn about the critical role played by a small group of Greek children who had been relocated from the war-torn eastern Mediterranean to the US during the 1820s.
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Watch the last episode of our Greek Painting in Context, webinar series, with Professor Palagia, and discover the beautiful wall-paintings of the underground tombs in Macedonia.
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Τεκμήρια σχετικά με την Επανάσταση του ’21 από χειρόγραφο της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης περιλαμβάνουν ενδιαφέρουσες πληροφορίες που φωτίζουν την περίοδο συγκρότησης του νεαρού ελληνικού κράτους.
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Friends of the Immerwahrs name suite after renowned scholars and alumni/ae of the American School.
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Στο χειρόγραφο MSS 109 της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης φυλάσσεται μέρος της αλληλογραφίας του φιλέλληνα στρατιωτικού Ρίτσαρντ Τσωρτς.
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Watch our latest webinar with Professor Drpic and learn more about the restoration of icons in the premodern world.
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Η έκθεση θα φιλοξενηθεί στην πτέρυγα Ι. Μακρυγιάννη της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης από τις 25 Μαΐου έως τις 19 Δεκεμβρίου 2021.
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Upcoming exhibition will be held in the Makriyannis Wing of the Gennadius Library from May 25, 2021, to December 12, 2021.
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In the papers of poet and Nobel laureate George Seferis, there is a collection of newspapers, magazines, and leaflets published either secretly or outside Greece during WW II. One of these magazines, ΑΕΡΑ, was published in Cairo and was thrown by airplanes into territories occupied by the Germans.
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The Makriyannis paintings are an important treasure of the Gennadius Library that give us the opportunity to revisit the worldviews of General Makriyannis.
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Δύο εκδόσεις με ιδιαίτερη ιστορία που συνδέεται με την τυπογραφία στο Μεσολόγγι και την Αθήνα στα χρόνια της Ελληνικής Επανάστασης, καθώς και με τον Άγγλο φιλέλληνα Leicester Stanhope (1784-1862).
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Οι πίνακες του Ιωάννη Μακρυγιάννη αποτελούν σύμβολο της σημαντικής συνεισφοράς του Ι. Γεννάδιου στη μελέτη της ελληνικής ιστορίας και μας δίνουν τη δυνατότητα να αναστοχαστούμε την κοσμοθεωρία του αγωνιστή του '21.
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Distinguished alumna, archaeologist, and professor to be honored at the American School.
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The Gennadius Library recently acquired from Vergos Auctions another Venetian rare first edition of the 17th century.
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Η Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη απέκτησε πρόσφατα από τις Δημοπρασίες Βέργος μια ακόμα σπάνια βενετική πρώτη έκδοση του 17ου αιώνα.
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Watch our latest webinar with Professor Jenifer Neils, and learn everything about one of the most famous paintings from classical antiquity. The one that was inside the shield of the gold-and-ivory colossal statue of Athena that once stood in the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis.
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Παρακολουθήστε την πρόσφατη ομιλία της κας. Κουλούρη, Πρυτάνεως του Παντείου Πανεπιστημίου Κοινωνικών και Πολιτικών Επιστημών και μάθετε περισσότερα για τις διαδικασίες συγκρότησης της «ιστορικής πινακοθήκης» του 1821, ως κυρίαρχης οπτικής αφήγησης του μείζονος γεγονότος της ελληνικής εθνικής ιστορίας.
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Watch our latest webinar from Gennadius Library, with Professor Koulouri and learn more about the he process of the creation of a "historical gallery" for 1821, as the dominant visual narrative of the major event of Greek national history.
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Watch our latest webinar from our Greek Painting in Context Webinar Series, as we cross the sea to Etruria, where thousands of Athenian figured vases traveled during the sixth and fifth centuries B.C.E.
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Join us on Thursday, May 6, 2021, for our virtual celebration honoring Professor Curtis Runnels.
Read MoreThanks to the generosity and support of the Schwarz Foundation the Gennadius Library is pleased to announce two new fellowships for study at the Gennadius Library: the Schwarz Fellowship for Research on Music and the Schwarz Fellowship for Research on Urban Architecture. The deadline for applications is April 30, 2021.
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Watch our latest webinar in honor of International Women’s Day, where we gathered a group of distinguished female archaeologists to discuss their experiences as directors of excavations and surveys in Greece.
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