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.
Please join us for our annual Gala on May 9 in New York City as we celebrate the Corinth Excavations and remember pioneering archaeologist Hetty Goldman.
The American School invites you to our annual Open Meeting. Please join us for an evening of lectures given by Director Jenifer Neils, Mellon Professor Sylvian Fachard, and Professor at Emory Univeristy Bonna Wescoat with a reception to follow.
Topics include the history and geoarchaeology of the lower Maeander Valley, the Athena Promachos accounts from the Acropolis, and the South Stoa at Corinth.
A $9.7 million capital campaign for the expansion and complete renovation of the student center is underway.
The Gennadius Library will remain closed the following days: Thursday, April 25, 2019 from 5:00 pm Friday, April 26, 2019 Saturday, April 27, 2019 Monday, April 29, 2019 Tuesday, April 30, 2019 Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Read MoreASCSA'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. In order for the work to be completed most efficiently and with the least inconvenience to our users, libraries closure is inevitable.The Gennadius Library will close on May 20, 2019 through August 18, 2019. In the case of a change in the dates a new notice will be issued. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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Dennis Rhodes, the writer of the very important bibliography "Incunabula in Greece: A first census", visited the Gennadius and the British School of Archaelogy Libraries. On Friday April 12, he was welcomed by ASCSA Director Jenifer Neils, GL Director Maria Georgopoulou, BSA Library Penny Wilson and GL Senior Librarian, Irini Solomonidi.
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Twenty students of The Hellenic Open University and their professors Ioannis Theodorakopoulos and Maria Papadaki visited Gennadius Library on Wednesday April 4.
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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.”