We Uncover it All

April 27, 2026

Gennadius Library and Exhibition closed on May 1

The Gennadius Library and the exhibition "Gennadius Library 100. A Century of Inspiration" will be closed on Friday, May 1, 2026.

April 27, 2026

Πρωτομαγιά 2026

Η Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη και η έκθεση "Γεννάδειος 100. Ένας Αιώνας Έμπνευσης" θα παραμείνουν κλειστά την Παρασκευή, 1 Μαΐου.

April 17, 2026

Η Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη στον Περίπατο Βιβλίου, Σάββατο 25 Απριλίου

Η Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη συμμετέχει στον Περίπατο Βιβλίου, που θα πραγματοποιηθεί το Σάββατο 25 Απριλίου. Συμμετέχει στη δράση με την έκθεση «Γεννάδειος 100. Ένας Αιώνας Έμπνευσης», που θα είναι ανοικτή για το κοινό 12.00-18.00. Το διάστημα 13.00-14.00 θα γίνει ξενάγηση από την Ειρήνη Σολομωνίδη, Επικεφαλής Βιβλιοθηκάριο και μία εκ των επιμελητριών της έκθεσης.

April 2, 2026

We Uncover it All - Kevin S. Lee

March 31, 2026

We Uncover it All - Catherine Volmensky

March 30, 2026

New Interview with Jessica Lamont

Watch part one of our latest episode with Jesica Lamont

March 25, 2026

We Uncover it All - Firuzan Melike Sümertaş

March 23, 2026

Hesperia 95.1 Now Online!

We are pleased to announce the publication of Hesperia 95.1! Topics in this issue include an engraving of a warrior from LMB IIIA Ayia Irini on Kea, the relationship between inscriptions and images in Archaic Greece, four new pinakion fragments from the Athenian Agora, the colossus of Porto Raphti, and the account of the martyrdom of St. Demetrios and what it reveals about gladiatorial events and the stadium in Roman Thessaloniki.

March 20, 2026

Classics Revived: Beloved Agora Picture Books Get New Life

ASCSA Publications launches an initiative to reissue every volume in the Agora Picture Book series in an updated, full-color edition and modern Greek translation.

March 18, 2026

We Uncover it All - Collin Moat

Today, we share highlights from our interview with Collin Moat (University of California, Los Angeles), Eugene Vanderpool Fellow, as he offers unique insights into his research on how the life cycles of trees are entangled in Homeric understandings of human mortality.

March 16, 2026

Edward Capps and the Enduring Power of Legacy

On a warm August day in 1950, news of Edward Capps’s passing traveled quietly between Princeton and Athens. More than seventy-five years later, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens continues to reflect his vision and his belief that scholarship is sustained across generations.

March 11, 2026

We Uncover it All - Edward Trofimov

Today, we share highlights from our interview with Edward Trofimov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), this year’s Constantine and George Macricostas Fellow at the Gennadius Library, as he offers unique insights into his research on penitential manuscripts and looks at the social history of confession and penance in the Byzantine Empire.

February 27, 2026

Interview with Colin Whiting

Watch our next episode with Colin Whiting, Managing editor of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks and author of the Agora Picture Book Dogs in the Athenian Agora.

February 20, 2026

New Episode - Interview with Sue Langdon

Watch our latest episode witn Sue Langdon, a leading authority on the Archaic terracotta figurines of Ancient Corinth.

February 18, 2026

Nicholas Bacopoulos and Calypso Gounti Seminar Room Named at the Wiener Laboratory

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce that the seminar room in the Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science has been named the Nicholas Bacopoulos and Calypso Gounti Seminar Room.

February 11, 2026

New Publication: Greek and Roman Coins in the Athenian Agora

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce the publication of a new edition of Greek and Roman Coins in the Athenian Agora, by Fred S. Kleiner.

January 30, 2026

The Gennadius Library Opens the 2026 Thalia Potamianos Lecture Series with a Distinguished Evening at the Getty Villa

Katherine E. Fleming, President and Chief Executive Officer of the J. Paul Getty Trust and Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization in the Department of History at New York University, delivered the opening lecture of the 2026 Thalia Potamianos Lecture Series.

January 22, 2026

Interview with Karen Garnett

his month on Corinthian Conversations we’re featuring mother, artist, art historian, lecturer, CAD designer, software QA manager, technical writer, and lychnologist, Karen Garnett

January 21, 2026

Muhabbet: East Mediterranean Conversations

Muhabbet is an initiative sponsored by the American College of Greece, the National Hellenic Research Institute and the Gennadius Library, aiming at bringing together scholars, students, and people interested in the shared social history and cultural heritage of the East Mediterranean. We wish to hold discussions about our common legacies in an informal and friendly environment, like that of the coffeehouses, which originated in the Ottoman East Mediterranean, where people used to come together to develop amicable conversations called muhabbet.

January 21, 2026

Μαθητικός Διαγωνισμός για τον εορτασμό των 100 χρόνων της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης με θέμα «Ο Τόπος μου»

Με αφορμή τη συμπλήρωση 100 χρόνων από την ίδρυσή της, η Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη με την αιγίδα του Υπουργείου Παιδείας, Θρησκευμάτων και Αθλητισμού διοργανώνει μαθητικό διαγωνισμό με θέμα «Ο Τόπος μου».

December 31, 2025

Year in Review 2025

December 29, 2025

Ένα περιπλανώμενο βιβλίο βρίσκει τον προορισμό του: ένα σημαντικό αντίτυπο των Εκλογών του Στοβαίου (1559) στη Γεννάδειο Βιβλιοθήκη

Η Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη απέκτησε ένα εξαιρετικό αντίτυπο της έκδοσης των Εκλογών του Ιωάννη Στοβαίου, τυπωμένο στη Ζυρίχη το 1559. Στη Γεννάδειο Βιβλιοθήκη, το αντίτυπο αυτό βρίσκει επιτέλους τον φυσικό του προορισμό· μια πορεία αιώνων, τόπων και τρόπων χρήσης.

December 29, 2025

A Wandering Copy Finds a Home: A 1559 Zurich Edition of Stobaeus at the Gennadius Library

An exceptional sixteenth-century printed book has been donated to the Gennadius Library: a 1559 Zurich (Tiguri) folio edition of John Stobaeus’ "Sententiae." The book's arrival at the Gennadius Library brings to rest a book whose long journey across centuries and borders is written into its very pages.

December 19, 2025

Hesperia 94.4 Now Online!

We are pleased to announce the publication of Hesperia 94.4! Topics in this issue include a new evaluation of the Kleidi Pass at Samikon, the latest field report from the Corinth Excavations campaign Northeast of the Theater, and a survey of the uninhabited islands of the western Cyclades.

December 12, 2025

ASCSA Archives Contributes to A Constitution of Our Own, 1975-2025 Anniversary Exhibition

The Archives of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens is proud to participate in the Hellenic Parliament's 50th-anniversary exhibition, "Το δικό μας Σύνταγμα 1975-2025" (A Constitution of Our Own 1975-2025).