Students recreate the pediment from the Temple of Aphaia on Aegina.
Students recreate the pediment from the Temple of Aphaia on Aegina.
The oldest and largest U.S. overseas research center, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens provides graduate students and scholars from affiliated North American colleges and universities a base for the advanced study of all aspects of Greek culture, from antiquity to the present day.
Topics include Mycenaeanization on Melos in the Late Bronze Age, food markets in Roman Greece, pottery and architecture from the Late Roman South Basilica at Polis on Cyprus, and Butrint in the Venetian through Ottoman periods.
View photographs by British artist Ian Walker on display now in the Ioannis Makriyannis Wing of the Gennadius Library.
A $9.7 million capital campaign for the expansion and complete renovation of the student center is underway.
New "Open Day" program at Corinth Excavations invites student and adult groups to observe stages of the archaeological process both on and off the field.
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Clayton Lehmann's Summer Seminar Reads Elytis and Seferis in the School's Archives
Read MoreBlegen library will be closed to visitors on Monday, June 17th in observance of Pentecost.
Read MoreThe Gennadius Library is undergoing a major reclassification project of its collections according to the Library of Congress system. This change will allow stack access to the Library’s research collections. In order for the work to be completed most efficiently, the Library will remain closed to the public from May 20 through August 18, 2019. We apologize for the inconvenience. The Gennadius will reopen on Monday August 19, 2019 with a limited summer schedule as follows Monday-Thursday 9:00 – 16.30, Friday 9:00 – 15:00 (closed on Saturday).
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"Looking at a map of Greece before and after the Regular Member program is the difference between looking at a poem before and after learning the language of its composition. What you see doesn’t change, but the difference in understanding is monumental.”