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 on May 9 in NYC as we celebrate the Corinth Excavations and remember pioneering archaeologist Hetty Goldman
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.
Using 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 will be closed on Monday, March 25, 2019.
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Representatives from the American School were invited to a special ceremony at the White House to honor Greek Independence Day.
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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"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.”