June 2, 2024
Evelyn Lord Smithson Honored With Room in Loring Hall
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce the dedication of a room in Loring Hall in memory of Evelyn Lord Smithson.
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May 30, 2024
American School Releases 142nd Annual Report Highlighting Major Accomplishments and Work
The American School is pleased to announce the release of its annual report covering the 2022-2023 academic year.
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May 15, 2024
School Awards Mary Lefkowitz with Athens Prize at Eighth Annual Gala
On Thursday, May 9, 2024, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens hosted its eight annual Gala. Over 350 guests enjoyed an evening replete with culture, education, and inspiration at the majestic Gotham Hall in New York City.
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May 14, 2024
Emily Wilson Captivates Crowd with Lecture on The Wisdom of Stories
Renowned classicist Emily Wilson captivated a full house on May 8 at St. Bartholomew's Church on Park Avenue in New York City, as she explored the theme of “The Wisdom of Stories.”
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May 13, 2024
Watch the new film "In the Name of Humanity"
Watch the short film about our exhibition entitled "In the Name of Humanity".
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April 26, 2024
Video Archive: Orthodoxy and the Ottoman World Around It: Cultural and Intellectual Connections, 1657-1861
Watch the recording of our symposium on "Orthodoxy and the Ottoman World around it"
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April 22, 2024
Video Archive: Opus Alexandrinum, Musical Activity of the Greeks at Alexandria ad Aegyptum
Watch the video archive of the concert by Natalia Geraki (flute), Apostolos Palios (piano), and Irini Karaianni, who performed works by Greek composers, born or raised in Alexandria, as well as compositions by Dimitri Mitropoulos, Argyris Kounadis, and Thodoros Antoniou, who were inspired by the poetry of the Alexandrian poet Constantine P. Cavafy.
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April 22, 2024
The Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory industrial micro-CT scanner
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is thrilled to announce the arrival and installation of an industrial micro-CT scanner at the School’s Malcolm Wiener Laboratory for Archeological Science.
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April 19, 2024
Video archive: Annual Open Meeting 2024
Watch a recording of our 2024 Annual Open Meeting
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March 15, 2024
Hesperia 93.1 Now Online!
Topics in this issue include the grave of the Griffin Warrior, Athenian Hellenistic taxes, the work of the Western Argolid Regional Project, and a Tang Dynasty coin found at Corinth.
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March 11, 2024
«Η Αναγεννησιακή Σαπφώ» στη Γεννάδειο Βιβλιοθήκη. Έκθεση σε επιμέλεια της Ειρήνης Σολομωνίδη και του Louis A. Ruprecht Jr
Η έκθεση στήθηκε στο Αναγνωστήριο της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης σε συνδυασμό με τη διάλεξη του L. Rupprecht «Η Αναγεννησιακή Σαπφώ» στις 28 Μαρτίου, και παρουσιάζει σπάνιες αναγεννησιακές εκδόσεις της ποίησης της Σαπφούς.
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March 8, 2024
"The Renaissance Sappho" an exhibition at the Gennadius Library
In conjunction with L. Rupprecht’s lecture “The Renaissance Sappho” on March 28, an exhibition in the Reading Room of the Gennadius Library showcases rare Renaissance editions of Sappho’s poetry.
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February 23, 2024
Η Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη αποκτά ένα Ψαλτήριο του 16ου αιώνα, πιθανότατα τυπωμένο στη Βενετία.
Η Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη απέκτησε πρόσφατα ένα εξαιρετικά σπάνιο βιβλίο με τίτλο ΨΑΛΤΗPION TOΥ ΘΕΙΟΥ ΔΑΒΙΔ. Πρόκειται για ένα ψαλτήριο που τυπώθηκε το 1584, πιθανά στη Βενετία από τον Giacomo Leoncini (fl. 1560-1589).
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February 22, 2024
Lucy Talcott Honored With Room in Loring Hall
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce a room in Loring Hall in memory of Lucy Talcott, who was Secretary of the Agora Excavations from 1931 to 1958.
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February 22, 2024
The Gennadius Library acquires a 16th century Psalterion probably printed in Venice
The Gennadius Library recently acquired an extremely rare book entitled the ΨΑΛΤΗPION TOΥ ΘΕΙΟΥ ΔΑΒΙΔ. This is a psalter printed in 1584, probably in Venice by Giacomo Leoncini (fl. 1560-1589).
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February 8, 2024
Παναγιώτης Γεννάδιος (1848-1917). Πρωτοπόρος της ελληνικής γεωπονίας
Ο Παναγιώτης Γεννάδιος, νεώτερος αδελφός του Ιωάννη Γενναδίου, υπήρξε διακεκριμένος γεωπόνος.
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February 7, 2024
41st Annual Walton Lecture - Achilles, Odysseus… Erotokritos?
Watch our video with Richard P. Martin (Stanford University). In this talk, Professor Martin shows how studying the Homeric epics in tandem with the Erotokritos, the masterpiece of the 17th-century Cretan Renaissance.
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February 2, 2024
Archives Annual Lecture 2024 - The Other Athenians: Members of a Foreign School at Athens
Watch Alexandre Farnoux and Lucile Arnoux talking at the Annual Archives Lecture about the history of the French School at Athens.
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January 26, 2024
Emily Wilson Captivates Crowd with Lecture on Destiny, Tradition, Choice
Renowned classicist Emily Wilson captivated a full house at Georgetown University’s Gaston Hall as she explored the themes of “Destiny, Tradition, Choice.” The event drew an enthusiastic audience on-site, while thousands more engaged through live streaming.
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January 25, 2024
American School Receives National Arts Club Medal of Honor
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens received the Medal of Honor for Achievement in Archaeology from the National Arts Club (NAC).
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January 20, 2024
W. Kendrick Pritchett Honored With Room in Loring Hall
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce a room in Loring Hall in memory of W. Kendrick Pritchett, Professor of Greek at the University of California at Berkeley.
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January 18, 2024
Markets in the Demes, A New Approach to the Attic Countryside
Watch our video with Edward Harris (University of Durham) and Sylvian Fachard (University of Lausanne and Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece) on the recent work in the Attic countryside to study several rural markets neglected by these scholars.
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