On September 26, 2024, the Archives of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the Poets Circle presented the closing ceremony of the 10th Athens World Poetry Festival and the Barbara Fields-Siotis Award Ceremony for 2024. The awardee was poet Alicia Stallings.
Read MoreΆρθρο της Λαμπρινής Κουζέλη στο ΒΗΜΑ (Κυριακή 4 Αυγούστου) για μια άλλη, άγνωστη όψη του γνωστού συγγραφέα της Γενιάς του '30 Άγγελου Τερζάκη βασισμένο στις αναμνήσεις του γιού του Δημήτρη Τερζάκη και σε έρευνα που πραγματοποίησε η δημοσιογράφος στο Τμήμα Αρχείων της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών.
Read MoreOn Tuesday June 11th, 2024, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens hosted a garden party to welcome its new Summer Session students.
Read MoreThe American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce the dedication of a room in Loring Hall in memory of Evelyn Lord Smithson.
Read MoreThe American School is pleased to announce the release of its annual report covering the 2022-2023 academic year.
Read MoreOn Thursday, May 9, 2024, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens hosted its eight annual Gala. Over 350 guests enjoyed an evening replete with culture, education, and inspiration at the majestic Gotham Hall in New York City.
Read MoreWatch the short film about our exhibition entitled "In the Name of Humanity".
Read MoreWatch the video archive of the concert by Natalia Geraki (flute), Apostolos Palios (piano), and Irini Karaianni, who performed works by Greek composers, born or raised in Alexandria, as well as compositions by Dimitri Mitropoulos, Argyris Kounadis, and Thodoros Antoniou, who were inspired by the poetry of the Alexandrian poet Constantine P. Cavafy.
Read MoreWatch a recording of our 2024 Annual Open Meeting
Read MoreWatch Alexandre Farnoux and Lucile Arnoux talking at the Annual Archives Lecture about the history of the French School at Athens.
Read MoreWatch the year in review and see how your financial support touches the lives of so many people!
Read MoreAmerican School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce a new major gift from Diana E. E. and Fred S. Kleiner: a room in Loring Hall named in honor of Hesperia.
Read MorePetros Themelis, one of the most prominent Greek archaeologists, professor and colleague, passed away on Friday, October 27th, at the age of 87.
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Read MoreΜετά το επιτυχημένο αφιέρωμα στον πεζογράφο Άγγελο Τερζάκη, η δημοσιογράφος Λαμπρινή Κουζέλη συνεχίζει την έρευνά της με θέμα τη θέση του λογοτέχνη στην Ελλάδα. Στο "Βήμα της Κυριακής" (20 Αυγούστου) γράφει για τον ποιητή (και κατά βιοπορισμόν γιατρό) Τάκη Σινόπουλο, το αρχείο του οποίου φυλάσσεται στην Αμερικανική Σχολή Κλασικών Σπουδών.
Read MoreΗ δημοσιογράφος Λαμπρινή Κουζέλη, μετά από έρευνα στο προσωπικό αρχείο του συγγραφέα στην Αμερικανική Σχολή Κλασικών Σπουδών, γράφει στο "Βήμα της Κυριακής" (6 Αυγούστου) για τις ποικίλες διαδρομές της ζωής και του έργου του Άγγελου Τερζάκη εντός και εκτός των ελληνικών συνόρων.
Read MoreIra D. Wallach Professor of History at Columbia University and a member of the Board of Overseers of the Gennadius Library honored at Gotham Hall in New York City.
Read MoreWatch the video archive of our annual Open meeting and learn about the important work that was carried out at the American School, for the past year, as well as the amazing new finds at the Palace of Nestor at Pylos.
Read MoreThe American School is pleased to announce the release of its annual report covering the 2021-2022 academic year.
Read MoreWatch the year in review and see how your financial support touches the lives of so many people!
Read MoreWatch the video archive our Annual Archives lecture and learn more about the role of archaeologists from Princeton University in the Ottoman Empire during the first two decades of the 20th century, ca. 1900–1922
Read MoreAuthor of many books and articles and member of distinguished committees, George Leonard Huxley taught classics for twenty years at Queen’s University in Belfast (1962-1983). Before that he was the Assistant Director of the British School at Athens. From 1986 until 1989, Huxley served as the Director of the Gennadius Library at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA). In 2008, he donated his personal papers to the ASCSA Archives.
Read MoreRead the latest edition of our Newsletter to find out what is happening at the American School.
Read MoreΗ περίφημη γενιά του 1930 σε αεροπλάνα και βαπόρια. Πέντε αφιερώματα από τη Λαμπρινή Κουζέλη, στο Βήμα της Κυριακής, αρχής γενομένης από την προηγούμενη Κυριακή (7 Αυγούστου). Πρώτο αφιέρωμα στα ταξίδια του ποιητή Γιώργου Σεφέρη.
Read MoreΟ συγγραφέας Βαγγέλης Ραπτόπουλος δημοσιεύει στη LIFO την αλληλογραφία του με τον Ηλία Πετρόπουλο (1928-2003). Οι επιστολές προέρχονται από τα προσωπικά αρχεία των δύο συγγραφέων που βρίσκονται κατατεθειμένα στο Τμήμα Αρχείων της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών.
Read MoreJohn Lee's much anticipated book about the first African American archaeologist and member of the American School of Classical Studies in 1890-1891, John W. Gilbert, is finally out.
Read MoreGreek Printing Presses during the Revolution of 1821: the exhibition traces the trajectory of printing in Revolutionary Greece based on the collections of the Gennadius Library.
Read MoreWatch the opening lecture of our new virtual exhibition on Heinrich Schliemann, with Dr. Michaela Zavadil, and learn about Schliemann's excavations in Greece.
Read More"'Εφυγε" από κοντά μας η κυρία Λιλή Αλιβιζάτου, αδελφή του συγγραφέα και δοκιμιογράφου Γιώργου Θεοτοκά.
Read MoreWatch the video archive of our Annual Archives lecture with Alexandra Kankeleit, and learn about the relationship between the DAI and the SS Ahnenerbe and how DAI avoided being crushed by competing forces of that era.
Read MoreThe Blegen Library, during the Christmas holidays, will remain closed the following days: Friday, December 24, 2021; Saturday, December 25, 2021; Friday, December 31, 2021; Saturday, January 1, 2022; Thursday, January 6, 2022
Read MoreΜε χαρά υποδεχτήκαμε στα Αρχεία της ΑΣΚΣΑ δέκα μαθητές και μαθήτριες και τη διευθύντρια του Λυκείου Βουλιαγμένης. Σκοπός της επίσκεψής τους; Να δούν από κοντά το αρχείο του ποιητή Τάκη Σινόπουλου.
Read MoreIn anticipation of Heinrich Schliemann's birth bicentennial, Antike Welt has published a separate volume about the excavator of Troy and Mycenae with eleven scholarly contributions, including two by ASCSA members.
Read MoreRemembering Evi Touloupa (1924-2021), Ephor of Acropolis and a friend of the School.
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 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 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 MoreIn 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.
Read MoreΣτις 19 Φεβρουαρίου η Αθήνα τιμά μια σπουδαία μορφή, την Αγία Φιλοθέη την Αθηναία (1522-1589). Η κατά κόσμον Ρηγούλα Μπενιζέλου ίδρυσε το πρώτο σχολείο θηλέων στη νεότερη Ελλάδα, όπου φτωχά κορίτσια της Αττικής, συχνά φυγάδες από χαρέμια, εύρισκαν καταφύγιο, προστασία, τροφή αλλά ακόμα εκπαιδεύονταν σε στοιχειώδη γράμματα και χειροτεχνία.
Read MoreTo commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27, we share today the fascinating story of the rescue of 150 Jews with the help of Zoe S. Dragoumis-Palencia (1882-1964), whose papers are housed in the ASCSA Archives.
Read MoreGiannis Skaribas (1893-1984), the unconventional Greek poet, novelist and play writer died thirty seven years ago today on 21 January 1984. In case you wonder, yes, the ASCSA Archives do hold material related to the writer of "Το Θείο Τραγί" and "Ουλαλούμ".
Read MoreFlorence 'Anthi' Gennadius died sixty-nine years ago today (σαν σήμερα), on 14 January 1952, at East Molsesey in Surrey, UK. After marrying Joannes Gennadius in 1932, she embraced her husband’s love for Greece and adopted her Greek name Anthi (Ανθή). Florence also supported Joannes's decision to present his entire collection to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens that led to the creation of the Gennadius Library.
Read MoreΜόλις κυκλοφόρησε ο κατάλογος της έκθεσης Ίων Δραγούμης: Στο Μεταίχμιο Ανατολής και Δύσης. Εκατό Χρόνια από τη Δολοφονία του.
Read MoreDr. Annick Louis has published a new book about Heinrich Schliemann based on the four, different autobiographies that the famous excavator wrote.
Read MoreWatch the video archive of our annual Open Meeting, that was held in a new virtual format. Jenifer Neils, the Director of the School, was joined, for the first time, by members of the academic staff, in a discussion on the School’s diverse initiatives.
Read MoreΈνα νέο βιβλίο για τον συγγραφέα Άγγελο Τερζάκη (1907-1979), κορυφαίο εκπρόσωπο της περίφημης "Γενιάς του 1930", δημοσιεύτηκε πριν από λίγο καιρό. Βασισμένο σε έρευνα στο προσωπικό αρχείο του Τερζάκη που φυλάσσεται στα Αρχεία της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών, ο συγγραφέας του, Θανάσης Αγάθος, διερευνά τη σχέση του Τερζάκη με τον ελληνικό κινηματογράφο της δεκαετίας του 1950.
Read MoreΤα Αρχεία της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών στην Αθήνα απέκτησαν πρόσφατα δύο φωτογραφίες των ποιητών Τάκη Σινόπουλου και Γιώργη Παυλόπουλου, οι οποίες θα προστεθούν στα προσωπικά τους αρχεία που φυλάσσονται στην ΑΣΚΣΑ.
Read MoreWatch a very interesting webinar on Ion Dragoumis, a legendary figure in the Greek imagination because of his untimely death, by Professor, Roderick Beaton.
Read MoreVisit our latest exhibition on the life and work of Ion Dragoumis, a legendary figure in the Greek imagination because of his untimely death.
Read MoreAs we are getting ready for the opening on October 15th of the exhibition "Ion Dragoumis: Between East and West. One Hundred Years After His Assassination," the Hellenic Post issued a commemorative set of stamps featuring Ion Dragoumis.
Read MoreIn 1933, a Chinese student by the name Mao-Te Lo was admitted to the American School to attend the year-long program. He went on to become a famous translator of ancient Greek drama and comedy in China.
Read MoreThis week the ASCSA Archives received a wonderful donation from Professor Martha J. Payne (ASCSA Associate Member 1978-1979) -her great-grandfather's diary from a trip to Greece in 1890.
Read MoreThe ASCSA Archives is organizing a major exhibition titled "Ion Dragoumis: Between East and West. One Hundred Years After His Assassination."
Read MoreThe main photo in LIFO's essay about John Fowles, his classic book "The Magus," and the "magic" island of Spetses, where most of the book's action takes place, comes from the Homer A. Thompson papers.
Read MoreJoin us in watching the video archive of our webinar.
Read MoreThere used to be only two Newsletters published per year. One in the spring, one in the fall. With one exception, however. In 1984, three issues were published.
Read MoreA blast from the past! A number of old ASCSA Newsletters from the late 1970s/early 1980s are now available through the Archives' webpage.
Read MoreWhen John Camp was the Mellon Professor of Archaeology at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Read MoreWhat made an anti-Semitic Spanish diplomat rescue 150 Macedonian Jews? His wife.
Read MoreWatch a lecture by our Doreen Canaday Spitzer Archivist, Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan
Read MoreOn 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.
Read MoreRobert 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.
Read MoreΜε χαρά υποδεχτήκαμε στα Αρχεία της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών ομάδα υπαλλήλων από το Υπουργείο Μεταναστευτικής Πολιτικής.
Read MoreUse this list to join current American School members and staff for lectures, workshops, round table discussions and more at the 2020 AIA/SCS Annual Meeting in Washington DC.
Read MoreThe son of Clarence G. Lowe, Charles E. Lowe, and his wife Robbi, visited the School on Wednesday, October 23rd. Clarence G. Lowe (1897-1965), Professor of Classics at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, served as Librarian of the Gennadius Library for six years, from 1931 to 1937.
Read MoreDays of Art Greece, a magazine publication that aims to promote the art and culture of Greece everyday, published a four page article on the Blegen Library in their latest edition.
Read MoreThe ASCSA Archives provided the image for a biographical entry about archaeologist Gladys Davidson Weinberg (1909-2002) in the Jewish Women's Archives online encyclopedia. We chose a photo from 1945 showing Gladys Weinberg on the roof of a building in Athens.
Read MoreThe Gennadius Library has undergone a major reclassification project of its collections according to the Library of Congress system. This change allows stack access to the Library’s research collections.
Read MoreOne of the best coming-of-age Greek novels, Τα Ψάθινα Καπέλα, published in 1946 by Margarita Lymberaki (also spelled as Liberaki), is available in English, thanks to Karen Van Dyke's painstaking translation.
Read MoreClayton Lehmann's Summer Seminar Reads Elytis and Seferis in the School's Archives
Read MoreThe American School invites you to four upcoming events in conjunction with the exhibition Acropolis Redux: Caryatid/Frieze, on display now in the Ioannis Makriyannis Wing of the Gennadius Library.
Read MoreJonathan Hall, Professor of History and Classics at The University of Chicago, with his students at the ASCSA Archives.
Read MoreΤο Τμήμα Θεατρικών Σπουδών του ΕΚΠΑ, σε συνεργασία με το Εθνικό Θέατρο, διοργανώνει Επιστημονική Ημερίδα, με αφορμή τα σαράντα χρόνια από το θάνατο του Άγγελου Τερζάκη. Η Ημερίδα έχει τεθεί υπό την Αιγίδα του Υπουργείου Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού και θα πραγματοποιηθεί τη Δευτέρα 13 Μαΐου 2019 στην Αίθουσα Εκδηλώσεων του Εθνικού Θεάτρου.
Read MoreDennis Knoepfler, Professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Neuchâtel, has just published an article about Herodes Atticus's benefactions on the island of Euboea: "Hérode Atticus propriétaire et évergète en Eubée: une nouvelle inscription du Musée d’ Erétrie," REG 131, 2018/2, pp. 317-370.
Read MoreΜετά από πρωτοβουλία των καθηγητών του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών, Γεράσιμο Παγκράτη και Ρουμπίνη Δημοπούλου, είχαμε τη χαρά να ξεναγήσουμε στα Αρχεία της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών στην Ανατολική Πτέρυγα της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης, τους φοιτητές του πρώτου έτους του μεταπτυχιακού προγράμματος "Ελληνοϊταλικές Σπουδές: Ιστορία, Λογοτεχνία και Κλασική Παράδοση".
Read MoreProfessor David Roessel with a group of about 20 students, all war veterans, from Stockton University visited the School's Archives on March 15th. David's class reads the Iliad and Odyssey along with Achilles in Vietnam by Jonathan Shay, and other books that relate the poems to the experience of combat.
Read MorePortes Magazine has republished From the Archivist's Notebook one of my earlier posts (January 1, 2015), titled "Grèce en Vogue: A New Wave of American Philhellenism in the 1920s."
Read MoreStudents from the University of Victoria at the ASCSA Archives
Read MoreThe great granddaughter of George and Lela Mylonas, Crystal Chambers, and her husband Robbie Spears visited the School today to see where her great grandfather started his illustrious career and to look for photographs and other information about him in the School's Archives, where his personal papers are kept.
Read MoreThe Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation present TravelTrails: Travels and Explorations in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1500-1830.
Read MoreΜεταπτυχιακοί φοιτητές από το Τμήμα Φιλολογίας του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών ξεναγήθηκαν μαζί με την καθηγήτρια τους κ. Χριστίνα Ντουνιά στις εγκαταστάσεις της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών (ΑΣΚΣΑ) και ειδικότερα στα Αρχεία της Σχολής.
Read MoreMike Tremonte (ASCSA student 1989-1990) with his son Isaiah and friends stopped by the School this morning.
Read MoreTwo new books stemming from archival research: David Gill's biography of Winifred Lamb, a pioneering archaeologist and excavator of Thermi on Lesvos and Kusura in Turkey; and Massimo Cultraro's narrative of Heinrich Schliemann's interest in Italy from his first journey in 1858, as a tourist, to his last and fatal one in 1890.
Read MoreAt the meeting of the Athens Archaeological Research Libraries, the Gennadius Library shared recent programming and updates to the reclassification project.
Read MoreΗ Αθήνα 2018 Παγκόσμια Πρωτεύουσα Βιβλίου σε συνεργασία με το Θέατρο Δωματίου, τη Γεννάδειο Βιβλιοθήκη και τις Εκδόσεις Ωκεανίδα, καλούν το κοινό σε μια ξεχωριστή εκδήλωση με αφορμή τη συμπλήρωση δέκα χρόνων από το θάνατο της συγγραφέως Μαργαρίτας Καραπάνου.
Read MoreOn the occasion of OXI day (October 28th), Archivist Leda Costaki, who has processed the personal papers of novelist Stratis Myrivilis, was interviewed by ERT about Myrivilis's coverage of the Greek-Italian War in 1940, as a war correspondent.
Read MoreΟι "Βιβλίων Τόποι" και η εμπνεύστριά τους δημοσιογράφος και φιλόλογος Λαμπρινή Κουζέλη ξεναγήθηκαν το Σάββατο 10 Νοεμβρίου 2018 στην ανακαινισμένη Ανατολική Πτέρυγα της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης, όπου έχουν μετεγκατασταθεί όλες οι αρχειακές συλλογές της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών.
Read More"Τriumph Over Time," a film about Greece produced in 1947 by the American School, will be played during the summer on the island of Ano Koufonissi, at the old δημοτικό σχολείο, which has been renovated to house the island's antiquities collection. The event is part of Constellations in the Dirt (Αστερισμοί στο Χώμα) organized by NEON and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades
Read MoreAfter several months of extensive remodeling (Nov.2017-March 2018), two months of relocating (April -May 2018), we finally made it to our new home: The East Wing of the Gennadius Library (a.k.a Gennadeion East).
Read MoreNatalia Vogeikoff-Brogan, Doreen C. Spitzer Archivist ASCSA Annual Archives Lecture co-organized with the Fulbright Foundation in Greece.
Read MoreOwing to the transfer of the Archives in the Blegen Library to the East Wing of the Gennadius Library, researchers will not be able to access the School’s archival collections between January 15th and May 31st, 2018.
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