On 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 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 a recording of our 2024 Annual Open Meeting
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 MoreEach summer, the conservation laboratory of the Agora Excavations runs an 8-week internship program and hosts 2 – 3 international conservation students.
Read MoreRead the latest edition of our Newsletter to find out what is happening at the American School.
Read MoreRenowned classicist Emily Wilson lectured on The Vulnerability of Heroism to a capacity audience at Cotsen Hall, at the Gennadius Library, while thousands more watched online.
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 MoreLast Friday, 28 students and 3 teachers from the 4th High School of Alimos in Athens visited Blegen Library.
Read MoreWatch the year in review and see how your financial support touches the lives of so many people!
Read MoreRead the latest edition of our Newsletter to find out what is happening at the American School.
Read MoreMark Mazower has been selected as the next recipient of the prestigious Gennadius Prize. He will be honored in New York City at the May 2023 Gala of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
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 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 MoreAfter one year with no regular program, due to COVID-19 pandemic, ASCSA students are back in the library.
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 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 MoreFrom August 31, 2020, the Library has been open to registered users as follows: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 9:30 to 17:00; Thursday 9:30 to 20:00 and Saturday 9:30 to 14:00. Due to the epidemiological condition, free access to the bookstacks will not be allowed. The number of readers will be limited to a maximum of 9, who will only be allowed to use the Main Reading Room. The use of a non-surgical mask is obligatory.
Read MoreTake a look at our new addition outside the epigraphy room of Blegen Library.
Read MoreThe Blegen Library will remain closed to non-members for the summer. We hope to open to non-members in September so please consult the School’s website at that time for further information.
Read MoreA Regular and Associate Member in 2013-2015, Sarah Rous rejoins the School in the Publications department in Princeton!
Read MoreDr. Silvana Blazevska is the first recipient of the Voislav Sanev fellowship, which provides a North Macedonian scholar the opportunity to use the resources of the ASCSA.
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 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 MoreWe regret to inform you that today, June 26, Blegen Library will close at 16.30. We're very sorry for the inconvenience.
Read MoreThe American School welcomes Eric Driscoll, a former Regular Member and two-time Associate Member, as the new ASCSA Assistant Director.
Read MoreBlegen library will be closed to visitors on Monday, June 17th in observance of Pentecost.
Read MoreBlegen Library has just opened for its members and will soon be open to its visitors using Library of Congress Classification system for its collections. Please watch below a video and study a brief manual on the new system.
Read MoreΒlegen Library is re -opening for visitors on Monday, June 10, 2019 after having completed the reclassification project. Since it is important for visitors to become familiar with the new arrangements and procedures, they are requested to attend one of the scheduled orientations:
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 MoreBlegen Library’s reclassification project is nearly complete and the library will re-open on Wednesday June 5th for ASCSA members only and on June 10th for visitors.
Read MoreProfessors at George Washington University, Diane Harris Cline and Eric H. Cline, speak and do outreach about the release of their books in modern Greek.
Read MoreUsing GIS, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Classics at University of Arizona Eleni Hasaki and her colleagues created an online database for scholars to document, search, and continuously update kiln locations in Greece.
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 MoreFinal update on the Blegen library’s closure dates: The library will close on March 4, 2019 to allow for the completion of the reclassification project. It is scheduled to reopen in June 2019. We will provide more information on the library's reopening as soon as possible.
Read MoreAt the meeting of the Athens Archaeological Research Libraries, the Gennadius Library shared recent programming and updates to the reclassification project.
Read MoreThe Library Reclassification Project to integrate, customize, and modernize the classification systems of the Blegen and Gennadius Libraries will improve the experience of the thousands of international patrons who use them each year.
Read MoreThe ASCSA's libraries (Blegen, Gennadius and the Wiener Laboratory) are undergoing a major reclassification project for their collections following the Library of Congress system of call numbers. Live updates will be posted here as well as on the Facebook pages of the School.
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 MoreBonna Wescoat discusses The Monuments of the Eastern Hill (Samothrace 9), the first Samothrace volume published by the ASCSA
Read MoreAn interview with the authors of the first official guidebook to Corinth released by the ASCSA in over 50 years.
Read MoreThe Blegen Library welcomes gifts of books, journals, or offprints which may be appropriate for its collection as defined by the Acquisitions Policy. See below a small number of recent donations.
Read MoreMeet John Haberstroh, a Ph.D. student studying Ancient Mediterranean History at the University of California, Riverside. He is currently is a Regular Member at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
Read MoreDuring the Christmas holiday period, the Blegen library will be closed to visitors on the following days: December 25-26, 2017, January 1, January 6, 2018. No new cards will be issued and no orientations will take place between December 25th and January 6th.
Read MoreMeet Elina Salminen, an Associate Member at the American School working on a dissertation on the mortuary record of northern Greece from the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic period.
Read MoreMeet Eliza Gettel, a PhD candidate working on a dissertation on political institutions of the Greek world under Roman imperium.
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.
Read MoreStarting September 2017, the libraries of ASCSA (the Blegen, the Gennadius and the Wiener Laboratory) are undergoing a major reclassification project for their collections following the Library of Congress system of call numbers.
Read MoreAfter a comprehensive search, the ASCSA has chosen Jennifer Sacher to be the next editor of Hesperia.
Read MoreBorn in Izmir, George Mylonas (1898-1988) studied archaeology at the University of Athens and at Johns Hopkins University. He was the ASCSA's first bursar in the 1920s and worked with David M. Robinson at Olynthus. Mylonas taught archaeology at the Washington University Saint Louis from 1933 until his retirement in 1968. Mylonas is known for his excavations at Eleusis and Mycenae. A large part of his papers are housed in the Archives of the American School.
Read MoreThe American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) has been awarded three program grants totaling $900,000 to modernize and update its library holdings.
Read MoreThe American School's Summer 2017 issue of the newsletter is now online for viewing.
Read MoreNassos Papalexandrou, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship from the School to spend a year researching “Greek Antiquities as Diplomatic Gifts in Greek-U.S. Relationships after WW II.” An alumnus and former faculty of the ASCSA, Papalexandrou shares insights from his present work in this Q&A.
Read MoreResearchers will not be able to access the Archives of the Gennadius Library between November 1, 2017 and June 15, 2018. H πρόσβαση των ερευνητών στα Αρχεία της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης δεν θα είναι δυνατή από 1/11/2017 έως 15/6/2018.
Read MoreAn interview with Carol L. Lawton about the newest volume in our Athenian Agora series.
Read MoreTake a peek inside our Gennadius Library rare book room with Senior Librarian Irini Solomonidi to learn about the first printed Greek editions of Homer.
Read MoreMeet Carissa Nicholson, an Associate Member at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens working on a dissertation in Art History at the University of Florida.
Read MoreSeth Jaffe opens his first book by explaining its contradictions: “This book is the work of a political scientist (a political theorist), but is my sincere hope that it will prove of interest to classicists, from whom I have learned so much about Thucydides and this world.”
Read MoreMeet Catharine Judson, an Associate Member at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens working on a working on a PhD in Classical Archaeology.
Read MoreMeet Michele Asuni, a Regular Member at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens getting his Ph.D. in Classics at Johns Hopkins University.
Read MoreResearchers will not be able to access the Archives of the G.L. between July 1, 2017 and February 28, 2018. H πρόσβαση των ερευνητών στα Αρχεία της Βιβλιοθήκης δεν θα είναι δυνατή από 1/7/2017 έως 28/2/2018.
Read MoreThe Wiener Laboratory is excited to announce the addition of the following publications to our collection.
Read MoreMeet Ching-Yuan (Dwight) Wu, a Associate Member at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, working on a dissertation on Roman provincial administration.
Read MoreChavdar Tzochev discusses his work dating and contextualizing Thasian amphora stamps in the Athenian Agora.
Read MoreThe online home to the catalogues of the Gennadius, Blegen,Wiener Laboratory, and the British School, the new AMBROSIA is simpler and easier to use.
Read MoreMeet Minerva Alganza-Roldán, ia Senior Associate Member and a research fellow in the Polymnia Research Network of Ancient and Modern Mythographers.
Read MoreMeet Marion Meyer, a classical archaeologist who teaches in Vienna but returns to the ASCSA every summer to continue her research on the early cult of Athena.
Read MoreMeet Ross Brendle, a visiting student associate member at the American School of Classical Studies, working on a PhD in Classical Art and Archaeology.
Read MoreThe Blegen library is happy to announce the acquisition of four new online subscriptions. As always, we value your feedback and welcome any comments you may have.
Read MoreThe Blegen added new special projects and new staff and interns in 2015.
Read MoreFrom Rome to Athens. Lindsay Harris, Mellon Professor, and Kim Bowes, Director of the American Academy in Rome, on a short two-day visit to the ASCSA. On June 17th, Kim Bowes also delivered a fascinating talk at Cotsen Hall, titled "Roman Peasants: Food, Lives, Landscape."
Read MoreΦοιτητές του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών και αρχειακή έρευνα στην ΑΚΣΚΑ
Read MoreOPEN MEETING - “Work of the ASCSA during 2014” & “Archaeology, History and Science: a Microscopic Approach” James C. Wright, Director of ASCSA; Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College and Dr. Panagiotis Karkanas, M. H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science, ASCSA
Read MoreCarl W. Blegen is the most famous American archaeologist ever to work in Greece, and no American has ever had a greater impact on Greek archaeology. Yet Blegen, unlike several others of his generation, until now has found no biographer.
Read MoreFirst it hung on the walls of the American Academy in Rome; then in 1932 it followed its owner, Gorham Phillips Stevens, to Athens where he served as Director of the American School from 1939 to 1947.
Read MoreRobert D. Blegen, nephew of Carl W. Blegen (son of youngest brother John), visited recently the Blegen Library and the Blegen House on Ploutarchou 9
Read MoreOn March 11th, Professor Kostis Kourelis of Franklin and Marshall College delivered a fascinating lecture about architects who worked for the Corinth excavations from 1903 to 1933.
Read MoreOn May 31st, the ASCSA celebrated the Blegens and their contributions to archaeology through a day of insightful lectures and a visit to their former home.
Read MoreThe shifting of the entire library collection, which began in the Spring of 2012 with the installation of compact shelving, was completed this month.
Read MoreRecent funding from the Institute for Aegean Prehistory has enabled us to digitize a considerable part of the Schliemann Papers and make them available on the School's website.
Read MoreMaria Tourna, Assistant Librarian at the Blegen Library, was recently the subject of an article in the journal, "Serials: connecting the information community", published by the United Kingdom Serials Group. Click on the link under "Read more" to read the full article.
Read MoreASCSA has been awarded a prestigious Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for $578,750. The School must raise a three-to-one match to the NEH grant or about $1.8 million, which will support improvements and renovations to the School’s two world-renowned humanities research libraries.
Read MoreThe School is pleased to announce a recent grant awarded to the School by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. The grant will support the detailed cataloging of more than 1,500 periodicals in the Blegen and Gennadius Libraries.
Read MoreThe Blegen Library's collection of CD-ROMs and DVDs is now housed in the Main Reading Room and so is accessible to any library user. The collection includes media that accompany books as well as resources that are available only in CD-ROM or DVD format.
Read MoreDavid Voros, a professor at the University of South Carolina where he coordinates the painting program, is exhibiting his drawings at the Blegen Library from June 19 to July 15, 2009. In the exhibition, he presents selected works from a series of drawings he completed while a Visiting Senior Member at ASCSA in the Fall of 2007.
Read MoreSearching for electronic journals just got easier thanks to an A to Z list on the website
Read MoreThe American Library Association named ASCSA its Digital Library of the Week in the December 24, 2008 issue of its electronic newsletter.
Read MoreOn October 1, the School welcomed Karen Bohrer to the post of Head Librarian of the Blegen Library. She was previously Director of the Bissell Library at the American College of Thessaloniki.
Read MoreThe published results of excavations conducted by the ASCSA at Corinth since 1896 are now available through the JSTOR electronic archive.
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