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Alumni Week: Let’s Cook!

April 20, 2011

Alumni Week: Let’s Cook!

One cannot reminisce about time spent at the School without including food in some way. A memorable meal, perhaps in a spectacular setting. . . and with true xenía. To commemorate Alumni Week, alumna Kathleen Lynch took on the task of compiling some of those culinary experiences into a cookbook featuring alumni of the School. Read more to see how you can get a copy!

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Fluffy’s Trip to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

April 18, 2011

Fluffy’s Trip to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Who needs Flat Stanley when you can have Fluffy? Fluffy belongs to Hesperia editor Tracey Cullen and is an old friend of ASCSA Director Jack Davis. On March 30, Fluffy traveled to Greece with Andrew Reinhard, Director of Publications, and spent 10 days in Athens, Corinth, and Isthmia visiting the School, seeing old friends, and making new ones.

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April 7, 2011

Videocast: Mycenaean Wall-Paintings in Context New Discoveries and Old Finds Reconsidered - WORKSHOP

The following videcasts are from the two-day workshop of "Telltale Depictions: A Contextual View of Mycenaean Wall-Paintings", that took place at "The National Hellenic Research Foundation" in Athens.

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Videocast: Telltale Depictions: A Contextual View of Mycenaean Wall-Paintings

April 7, 2011

Videocast: Telltale Depictions: A Contextual View of Mycenaean Wall-Paintings

On February 11, 2011, John Bennett (University of Sheffield) delivered the lecture, "Telltale Depictions: A Contextual View of Mycenaean Wall-Paintings" to lead off the 2-day weekend workshop on the subject.

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Videocast: New Excavations at Stobi, 2009–2010

April 7, 2011

Videocast: New Excavations at Stobi, 2009–2010

On February 22, 2011, Silvana Blazevska of the National Institute of Stobi lectured on "New excavations at Stobi 2009–2010" in Cotsen Hall. Watch the lecture here.

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Videocast: Baldness in the Greek and Roman Imagination

April 7, 2011

Videocast: Baldness in the Greek and Roman Imagination

Are bald men smarter, more attractive, more accomplished on the battlefield?  Some ancient Greeks and Romans certainly thought so!  At least sometimes!  In a brisk and often humorous overview of ancient texts, Corey Brennan, Mellon Professor at the American Academy of Rome held his audience enthralled in his lecture "Baldness in the Greek and Roman Imagination" on March 1, 2011.

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Videocast: Open Meeting 2011

April 7, 2011

Videocast: Open Meeting 2011

ASCSA Director Jack L. Davis gave an update of the activities of the School and affiliated excavations for the past year to a packed audience in Cotsen Hall on March 11 and again in Thessaloniki on March 17. Jeffrey Soles also gave the lecture, "The Goddess and the Ancestors at Mochlos, Crete." The March 11 meeting was the first time this event was broadcast live, allowing institutions and friends of the School in the U.S. and elsewhere to watch in real time.

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Videocast: 30th Annual Walton Lecture

April 7, 2011

Videocast: 30th Annual Walton Lecture

On March 29, Sir Michael Llewellyn Smith, King’s College London, presented "Kings, Princes, and Powers: Venizelos and Dilemmas of National Revival" in Cotsen Hall.

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Alumni Week: We Remember . . .

April 6, 2011

Alumni Week: We Remember . . .

In preparation for the School's first-ever Alumni week on June 3-12, we have asked Members from years past to reminisce about their days at the School. Think School accommodations are unglamorous now? Read this account from Alan Boegehold!

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April 5, 2011

Corinth Excavations 2011 season begins

On April 4, 2011 the excavation season began in Ancient Corinth.

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March 24, 2011

John Camp Honored by the Society of Athenians

Agora Excavations Director John McK. Camp II was honored on March 14th, 2011 by the Society of Athenians as a philhellene and for his many years of archaeological work in Athens.

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Clean Monday Celebration Brings Out Supporters

March 17, 2011

Clean Monday Celebration Brings Out Supporters

Clean Monday was celebrated for the eleventh year by Philhellenes and Greek-Americans alike at Molyvos in New York City. This year's event raised nearly $40,000 to benefit the Gennadius Library.

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March 9, 2011

Annual Report Online

The annual report for the School covering the years 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 has recently been published and is available online.

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March 2, 2011

Gennadius Library closed on March 7, 2011

The Library will be closed on Clean Monday

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Clean Monday to be Celebrated in New York on March 7th

February 24, 2011

Clean Monday to be Celebrated in New York on March 7th

Come celebrate the beginning of Lent with the friends of the Library on March 7, 2011 at Molyvos in New York City. Music, dancing, and great Greek food!

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Research Spotlight: Angela Ziskowski and Construction of Corinthian Identity

February 22, 2011

Research Spotlight: Angela Ziskowski and Construction of Corinthian Identity

Angela Ziskowski successfully defended her dissertation, The Construction of Corinthian Identity in the Early Iron Age and Archaic Period, in February 2011 and was conferred her PhD by Bryn Mawr College.

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Pettegrew’s Corinthian Matters

February 20, 2011

Pettegrew’s Corinthian Matters

Corinthian Matters is a new and exciting electronic resource and blog created by David Pettegrew an Assistant Professor at Messiah College in Pennsylvania and member of the ASCSA. New developments in scholarship are reaching the public very slowly, which is why there exists widespread popular misunderstandings of the city of Corinth. His site intends to make archaeological and historical research more quickly accessible.

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February 11, 2011

Hesperia 79.4 Now Online

The latest issue of Hesperia is now available!

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February 10, 2011

Aristomenes Arberores (1938-2011)

Friend, mentor, and retired Foreman of the Corinth Excavations, Aristomenes Arberores passed away on February 10, 2011.

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πρωτότυπων χαρτών του Αβραάμ Ορτέλιου από τη Συλλογή Σαμούρκα

February 4, 2011

πρωτότυπων χαρτών του Αβραάμ Ορτέλιου από τη Συλλογή Σαμούρκα

Η διάλεξη του Γιώργου Τόλια από το Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Ερευνών του Εθνικού Ιδρύματος Ερευνών με θέμα «Η Ελλάδα του Αβραάμ Ορτέλιου μέσα από τους χάρτες της Συλλογής Σαμούρκα» εγκαινίασε την έκθεση πρωτότυπων χαρτών του Αβραάμ Ορτέλιου από τη Συλλογή Σαμούρκα που εκτίθενται στη Γεννάδειο Βιβλιοθήκη μέχρι τις 28 Φεβρουαρίου 2011.

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Exhibit Opens on Ortelius Maps from Samoukas Collection

February 4, 2011

Exhibit Opens on Ortelius Maps from Samoukas Collection

A lecture by George Tolias of the National Hellenic Research Foundation marked the exhibition opening of original maps of Abraham Ortelius from Margarita Samourka’s Collection. The exhibition continues until February 28, 2011.

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January 31, 2011

Ancient Corinth Featured in Greek TV Series

A new Greek series on SKAI-TV entitled 1821 features Corinth Excavations Director Guy Sanders discussing a 17th-18th c. Christian-Muslim cemetery on the Corinth site.

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January 28, 2011

Exhibition “Abraham Ortelius’ Greece. Maps from Margarita Samourka’s Collection”

Exhibition in the Basil Room of the Gennadius Library

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January 28, 2011

Έκθεση πρωτότυπων χαρτών του Αβραάμ Ορτέλιου από τη Συλλογή Σαμούρκα

Η Ελλάδα του Αβραάμ Ορτέλιου μέσα από χάρτες της Συλλογής Σαμούρκα

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January 27, 2011

Επιχορήγηση προγράμματος Βυζαντινής Γλώσσας και Γραμματείας της Βιβλιοθήκης από το Ίδρυμα Λεβέντη

Το ίδρυμα Λεβέντη επιχορηγεί το θερινό πρόγραμμα Βυζαντινής Γλώσσας και Γραμματείας της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης για τα έτη 2011 και 2013

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