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 college and universities a base for the advanced study of all aspects of Greek culture, from antiquity to the present day.
The School has recently received three important gifts—each in the amount of $100,000—that reflect the generosity of the individuals who made them, as well as the scope of the School’s current projects and initiatives.
The American School ushers in a new era of lecture and exhibition programming with the opening of the Ioannis Makriyannis Wing.
An exhibition of rare books marks the 550th anniversary of the death of the Albanian hero George Castriot Skanderbeg in the Reading Room of the Gennadius Library.
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Dr. Machi Paizi-Apostolopoulou, Research Director Εmerita, Institute of Historical Studies, National Hellenic Research Foundation Dr. Dorian Koçi, Director of the National Historical Museum of Albania.
Read MoreThe Gennadius Library will remain closed on Thursday and Friday November 22 & 23 2018, in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday.
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On 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.
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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.”