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February 22, 2023

American School Releases 141st Annual Report Highlighting Major Accomplishments and Work

The American School is pleased to announce the release of its annual report covering the 2021-2022 academic year.

December 31, 2022

Our Year In Review

Watch the year in review and see how your financial support touches the lives of so many people!

December 19, 2022

Video Archive: “Americans and Antiquity in Anatolia at the End of Empire”

Watch the video archive our Annual Archives lecture and learn more about the role of archaeologists from Princeton University in the Ottoman Empire during the first two decades of the 20th century, ca. 1900–1922

December 5, 2022

George Leonard Huxley (1932-2022)

Author of many books and articles and member of distinguished committees, George Leonard Huxley taught classics for twenty years at Queen’s University in Belfast (1962-1983). Before that he was the Assistant Director of the British School at Athens. From 1986 until 1989, Huxley served as the Director of the Gennadius Library at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA). In 2008, he donated his personal papers to the ASCSA Archives.

November 22, 2022

Fall 2022 Newsletter

Read the latest edition of our Newsletter to find out what is happening at the American School.

August 9, 2022

Η Γενιά του 1930 ταξιδεύει - The 1930s Generation Travels

Η περίφημη γενιά του 1930 σε αεροπλάνα και βαπόρια. Πέντε αφιερώματα από τη Λαμπρινή Κουζέλη, στο Βήμα της Κυριακής, αρχής γενομένης από την προηγούμενη Κυριακή (7 Αυγούστου). Πρώτο αφιέρωμα στα ταξίδια του ποιητή Γιώργου Σεφέρη.

May 25, 2022

Vangelis Raptopoulos corresponding with Elias Petropoulos

Ο συγγραφέας Βαγγέλης Ραπτόπουλος δημοσιεύει στη LIFO την αλληλογραφία του με τον Ηλία Πετρόπουλο (1928-2003). Οι επιστολές προέρχονται από τα προσωπικά αρχεία των δύο συγγραφέων που βρίσκονται κατατεθειμένα στο Τμήμα Αρχείων της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών.

March 18, 2022

Much Anticipated Book about John W. Gilbert is Out

John Lee's much anticipated book about the first African American archaeologist and member of the American School of Classical Studies in 1890-1891, John W. Gilbert, is finally out.

March 4, 2022

Online exhibition “Greek Printing Presses during the Revolution: editions from the collections of the Gennadius Library”

Greek Printing Presses during the Revolution of 1821: the exhibition traces the trajectory of printing in Revolutionary Greece based on the collections of the Gennadius Library.

February 25, 2022

Remembering Mike Keeley (1928-2022)

February 9, 2022

Online Exhibition Organized by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens to Mark the Bicentennial of Heinrich Schliemann’s Birth

February 7, 2022

Video Archive: Heinrich Schliemann …yet again! Why still delve into his biography 200 years after his birth?

Watch the opening lecture of our new virtual exhibition on Heinrich Schliemann, with Dr. Michaela Zavadil, and learn about Schliemann's excavations in Greece.

January 17, 2022

"Έφυγε" η Λιλή Αλιβιζάτου

"'Εφυγε" από κοντά μας η κυρία Λιλή Αλιβιζάτου, αδελφή του συγγραφέα και δοκιμιογράφου Γιώργου Θεοτοκά.

December 20, 2021

Video Archive: Genuine Alliance or Reluctant Partners?

Watch the video archive of our Annual Archives lecture with Alexandra Kankeleit, and learn about the relationship between the DAI and the SS Ahnenerbe and how DAI avoided being crushed by competing forces of that era.

Blegen closed during Christmas holidays

The Blegen Library, during the Christmas holidays, will remain closed the following days: Friday, December 24, 2021; Saturday, December 25, 2021; Friday, December 31, 2021; Saturday, January 1, 2022; Thursday, January 6, 2022

December 2, 2021

Το Λύκειο Βουλιαγμένης στα Αρχεία της ΑΣΚΣΑ

Με χαρά υποδεχτήκαμε στα Αρχεία της ΑΣΚΣΑ δέκα μαθητές και μαθήτριες και τη διευθύντρια του Λυκείου Βουλιαγμένης. Σκοπός της επίσκεψής τους; Να δούν από κοντά το αρχείο του ποιητή Τάκη Σινόπουλου.

November 12, 2021

New publication about Schliemann

In anticipation of Heinrich Schliemann's birth bicentennial, Antike Welt has published a separate volume about the excavator of Troy and Mycenae with eleven scholarly contributions, including two by ASCSA members.

October 13, 2021

Remembering Evi Touloupa

Remembering Evi Touloupa (1924-2021), Ephor of Acropolis and a friend of the School.

October 5, 2021

Schliemann Society Visits the ASCSA Archives

We were happy to receive 27 members of the Schliemann Gesellschaft from Ankershagen, Germany, who were on a tour of Greece, on the occasion of Heinrich Schliemann's 200th birth anniversary.

September 20, 2021

Fifty Years After George Seferis's Death

In 1971, more than 10,000 Greeks, singing the national anthem and Mikis Theodorakis’s musical version of Seferis's “Denial” (Άρνηση), followed the car that carried his body from Plaka to the First Cemetery.

August 2, 2021

Νέα έκδοση για τον Ίωνα Δραγούμη

Ο Νώντας Τσίγκας δημοσιεύει τα λεγόμενα "κρυμμένα" ημερολόγια (Οκτώβριος 1912 - Αύγουστος 1913) από το Αρχείο του Ίωνος Δραγούμη στην Αμερικανική Σχολή Κλασικών Σπουδών στην Αθήνα.

March 25, 2021

Celebrating 1821 during WW II

In the papers of poet and Nobel laureate George Seferis, there is a collection of newspapers, magazines, and leaflets published either secretly or outside Greece during WW II. One of these magazines, ΑΕΡΑ, was published in Cairo and was thrown by airplanes into territories occupied by the Germans.

February 19, 2021

Ο Ιωάννης Γεννάδιος και η Αγία Φιλοθέη η Αθηναία

Στις 19 Φεβρουαρίου η Αθήνα τιμά μια σπουδαία μορφή, την Αγία Φιλοθέη την Αθηναία (1522-1589). Η κατά κόσμον Ρηγούλα Μπενιζέλου ίδρυσε το πρώτο σχολείο θηλέων στη νεότερη Ελλάδα, όπου φτωχά κορίτσια της Αττικής, συχνά φυγάδες από χαρέμια, εύρισκαν καταφύγιο, προστασία, τροφή αλλά ακόμα εκπαιδεύονταν σε στοιχειώδη γράμματα και χειροτεχνία.

January 27, 2021

Holocaust Memorial Day - 27 January. A Story of Rescue from the Archives

To commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27, we share today the fascinating story of the rescue of 150 Jews with the help of Zoe S. Dragoumis-Palencia (1882-1964), whose papers are housed in the ASCSA Archives.

January 21, 2021

Σαν σήμερα: Γιάννης Σκαρίμπας (1893-1984)

Giannis Skaribas (1893-1984), the unconventional Greek poet, novelist and play writer died thirty seven years ago today on 21 January 1984. In case you wonder, yes, the ASCSA Archives do hold material related to the writer of "Το Θείο Τραγί" and "Ουλαλούμ".

January 14, 2021

Σαν σήμερα: Florence Elizabeth 'Ανθή' Gennadius (1854-1952)

Florence 'Anthi' Gennadius died sixty-nine years ago today (σαν σήμερα), on 14 January 1952, at East Molsesey in Surrey, UK. After marrying Joannes Gennadius in 1932, she embraced her husband’s love for Greece and adopted her Greek name Anthi (Ανθή). Florence also supported Joannes's decision to present his entire collection to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens that led to the creation of the Gennadius Library.

December 23, 2020

Catalogue of Ion Dragoumis Exhibition Just Published

Μόλις κυκλοφόρησε ο κατάλογος της έκθεσης Ίων Δραγούμης: Στο Μεταίχμιο Ανατολής και Δύσης. Εκατό Χρόνια από τη Δολοφονία του.

December 16, 2020

Schliemann Real and Imagined

Dr. Annick Louis has published a new book about Heinrich Schliemann based on the four, different autobiographies that the famous excavator wrote.

December 11, 2020

Open Meeting 2020

Watch the video archive of our annual Open Meeting, that was held in a new virtual format. Jenifer Neils, the Director of the School, was joined, for the first time, by members of the academic staff, in a discussion on the School’s diverse initiatives.

November 18, 2020

Νέο βιβλίο για τον Άγγελο Τερζάκη

Ένα νέο βιβλίο για τον συγγραφέα Άγγελο Τερζάκη (1907-1979), κορυφαίο εκπρόσωπο της περίφημης "Γενιάς του 1930", δημοσιεύτηκε πριν από λίγο καιρό. Βασισμένο σε έρευνα στο προσωπικό αρχείο του Τερζάκη που φυλάσσεται στα Αρχεία της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών, ο συγγραφέας του, Θανάσης Αγάθος, διερευνά τη σχέση του Τερζάκη με τον ελληνικό κινηματογράφο της δεκαετίας του 1950.

October 29, 2020

Poets Takis Sinopoulos and Yorgis Pavlopoulos Together

Τα Αρχεία της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών στην Αθήνα απέκτησαν πρόσφατα δύο φωτογραφίες των ποιητών Τάκη Σινόπουλου και Γιώργη Παυλόπουλου, οι οποίες θα προστεθούν στα προσωπικά τους αρχεία που φυλάσσονται στην ΑΣΚΣΑ.

October 16, 2020

Webinar: A Victim of His Times: Ion Dragoumis and the Struggle for the "National Soul" of Greece

Watch a very interesting webinar on Ion Dragoumis, a legendary figure in the Greek imagination because of his untimely death, by Professor, Roderick Beaton.

October 15, 2020

Exhibition - Ion Dragoumis: Between East and West

Visit our latest exhibition on the life and work of Ion Dragoumis, a legendary figure in the Greek imagination because of his untimely death.

October 7, 2020

Ion Dragoumis on Commemorative Stamp Issued by the Hellenic Post

As we are getting ready for the opening on October 15th of the exhibition "Ion Dragoumis: Between East and West. One Hundred Years After His Assassination," the Hellenic Post issued a commemorative set of stamps featuring Ion Dragoumis.

October 5, 2020

Mr. Lo: The First Chinese Student at the ASCSA, 1933

In 1933, a Chinese student by the name Mao-Te Lo was admitted to the American School to attend the year-long program. He went on to become a famous translator of ancient Greek drama and comedy in China.

September 24, 2020

The D'Ooge Brothers in Greece

This week the ASCSA Archives received a wonderful donation from Professor Martha J. Payne (ASCSA Associate Member 1978-1979) -her great-grandfather's diary from a trip to Greece in 1890.

July 30, 2020

Ion Dragoumis: Between East and West. One Hundred Years After His Assassination

The ASCSA Archives is organizing a major exhibition titled "Ion Dragoumis: Between East and West. One Hundred Years After His Assassination."

July 9, 2020

LIFO magazine features photo of Spetses from the ASCSA Archives

The main photo in LIFO's essay about John Fowles, his classic book "The Magus," and the "magic" island of Spetses, where most of the book's action takes place, comes from the Homer A. Thompson papers.

June 3, 2020

Webinar: Gender, Cultural Elites and the Cold War in Greece. A Case Study Approach Based on the Life and Work of Alison Frantz and Ekaterini Myrivili

Join us in watching the video archive of our webinar.

June 1, 2020

Intensive Cross-Cultural Experiences – The Katharine Butterworth Papers

May 14, 2020

ASCSA Responses to COVID-19

Please read our responses to COVID-19
Updated May 11th

May 11, 2020

Newsletters from 1984 Online

There used to be only two Newsletters published per year. One in the spring, one in the fall. With one exception, however. In 1984, three issues were published.

May 8, 2020

Q&A - COVID-19 - Updated

Please read our Q&A about current prevention measures and changes in Greece.

May 8, 2020

A Blast from the Past: Uploading old ASCSA Newsletters

A blast from the past! A number of old ASCSA Newsletters from the late 1970s/early 1980s are now available through the Archives' webpage.

May 6, 2020

When John Camp was the Mellon Professor at the American School

When John Camp was the Mellon Professor of Archaeology at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

April 23, 2020

What made an anti-Semitic Spanish diplomat rescue 150 Macedonian Jews? His wife. Research in the ASCSA Archives.

What made an anti-Semitic Spanish diplomat rescue 150 Macedonian Jews? His wife.

March 26, 2020

Videocast - "A Site for All Periods: The Diachronicity of Mochlos, East Crete"

Watch a lecture by our Doreen Canaday Spitzer Archivist, Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan

March 11, 2020

Important Notice - Libraries Closed

February 20, 2020

Boston College High School Students Explore the Schliemann Papers

On February 19, 2020, C. Emil Peñarubia and thirteen Boston College High School students (Hyde Global Scholars program) visited the ASCSA Archives. The students were in Greece on a week long trip visiting monuments and archaeological sites in Athens and outside the city; their busy schedule included a visit to the ASCSA, to see the Heinrich Schliemann Papers.

January 23, 2020

Hunter College Students Visit the American School

Robert B. Koehl, Professor of Archaeology at the Hunter College, City University of New York, with a group of his students, visited Gennadius Library and the ASCSA Archives on Thursday, January 16.

December 18, 2019

Ξενάγηση ομάδας υπαλλήλων του Υπουργείου Μεταναστευτικής Πολιτικής στην Αμερικανική Σχολή

Με χαρά υποδεχτήκαμε στα Αρχεία της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών ομάδα υπαλλήλων από το Υπουργείο Μεταναστευτικής Πολιτικής.

November 21, 2019

ASCSA at the 2020 AIA/SCS Annual Meeting in DC

Use this list to join current American School members and staff for lectures, workshops, round table discussions and more at the 2020 AIA/SCS Annual Meeting in Washington DC.

November 9, 2019

Descendants of Clarence G. Lowe, second Libarian of the Gennadeion, at the ASCSA

The son of Clarence G. Lowe, Charles E. Lowe, and his wife Robbi, visited the School on Wednesday, October 23rd. Clarence G. Lowe (1897-1965), Professor of Classics at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, served as Librarian of the Gennadius Library for six years, from 1931 to 1937.

October 7, 2019

The ASCSA students at the School's Archives

September 30, 2019

Days of Art Greece Covers the Blegen Library

Days of Art Greece, a magazine publication that aims to promote the art and culture of Greece everyday, published a four page article on the Blegen Library in their latest edition.

August 26, 2019

Jewish Women's Archives and Gladys Weinberg

The ASCSA Archives provided the image for a biographical entry about archaeologist Gladys Davidson Weinberg (1909-2002) in the Jewish Women's Archives online encyclopedia. We chose a photo from 1945 showing Gladys Weinberg on the roof of a building in Athens.

Gennadius Library Hours

The Gennadius Library has undergone a major reclassification project of its collections according to the Library of Congress system. This change allows stack access to the Library’s research collections.

July 17, 2019

Margarita Lymberaki's famous novel "Three Summers" in English thanks to Karen Van Dyke

One of the best coming-of-age Greek novels, Τα Ψάθινα Καπέλα, published in 1946 by Margarita Lymberaki (also spelled as Liberaki), is available in English, thanks to Karen Van Dyke's painstaking translation.

June 20, 2019

Clayton Lehmann's Summer Seminar Reads Elytis and Seferis in the School's Archives

May 29, 2019

Acropolis Redux: Caryatid/Frieze Events

The American School invites you to four upcoming events in conjunction with the exhibition Acropolis Redux: Caryatid/Frieze, on display now in the Ioannis Makriyannis Wing of the Gennadius Library.

May 22, 2019

University of Chicago Students Visit the ASCSA Archives

Jonathan Hall, Professor of History and Classics at The University of Chicago, with his students at the ASCSA Archives.

May 10, 2019

ΑΓΓΕΛΟΣ ΤΕΡΖΑΚΗΣ «Αγωνιών και άγρυπνος» Αθήνα, 13 Μαΐου 2019

Το Τμήμα Θεατρικών Σπουδών του ΕΚΠΑ, σε συνεργασία με το Εθνικό Θέατρο, διοργανώνει Επιστημονική Ημερίδα, με αφορμή τα σαράντα χρόνια από το θάνατο του Άγγελου Τερζάκη. Η Ημερίδα έχει τεθεί υπό την Αιγίδα του Υπουργείου Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού και θα πραγματοποιηθεί τη Δευτέρα 13 Μαΐου 2019 στην Αίθουσα Εκδηλώσεων του Εθνικού Θεάτρου.

April 25, 2019

New Publication Using the ASCSA Archival Resources

Dennis Knoepfler, Professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Neuchâtel, has just published an article about Herodes Atticus's benefactions on the island of Euboea: "Hérode Atticus propriétaire et évergète en Eubée: une nouvelle inscription du Musée d’ Erétrie," REG 131, 2018/2, pp. 317-370.

April 11, 2019

Μεταπτυχιακοί φοιτητές από το Τμήμα Ιταλικών Σπουδών του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών στα Αρχεία της Αμερικανικής Σχολής

Μετά από πρωτοβουλία των καθηγητών του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών, Γεράσιμο Παγκράτη και Ρουμπίνη Δημοπούλου, είχαμε τη χαρά να ξεναγήσουμε στα Αρχεία της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών στην Ανατολική Πτέρυγα της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης, τους φοιτητές του πρώτου έτους του μεταπτυχιακού προγράμματος "Ελληνοϊταλικές Σπουδές: Ιστορία, Λογοτεχνία και Κλασική Παράδοση".

April 9, 2019

War Veterans from Stockton University at the School's Archives

Professor David Roessel with a group of about 20 students, all war veterans, from Stockton University visited the School's Archives on March 15th. David's class reads the Iliad and Odyssey along with Achilles in Vietnam by Jonathan Shay, and other books that relate the poems to the experience of combat.

March 4, 2019

Grèce en Vogue: A New Wave of American Philhellenism in the 1920s

Portes Magazine has republished From the Archivist's Notebook one of my earlier posts (January 1, 2015), titled "Grèce en Vogue: A New Wave of American Philhellenism in the 1920s."

February 21, 2019

Students from the University of Victoria at the School's Archives

Students from the University of Victoria at the ASCSA Archives

February 18, 2019

Great granddaughter of George and Lela Mylonas visits the School

The great granddaughter of George and Lela Mylonas, Crystal Chambers, and her husband Robbie Spears visited the School today to see where her great grandfather started his illustrious career and to look for photographs and other information about him in the School's Archives, where his personal papers are kept.

February 7, 2019

TravelTrails: Travels and Explorations in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1500 – 1830

The Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation present TravelTrails: Travels and Explorations in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1500-1830.

January 25, 2019

Μεταπτυχιακοί φοιτητές από το Τμήμα Φιλολογίας του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών στα Αρχεία της Αμερικανικής Σχολής

Μεταπτυχιακοί φοιτητές από το Τμήμα Φιλολογίας του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών ξεναγήθηκαν μαζί με την καθηγήτρια τους κ. Χριστίνα Ντουνιά στις εγκαταστάσεις της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών (ΑΣΚΣΑ) και ειδικότερα στα Αρχεία της Σχολής.

January 11, 2019

An Old Friend Visits the School

Mike Tremonte (ASCSA student 1989-1990) with his son Isaiah and friends stopped by the School this morning.

December 19, 2018

Two New Publications, Products of Archival Research

Two new books stemming from archival research: David Gill's biography of Winifred Lamb, a pioneering archaeologist and excavator of Thermi on Lesvos and Kusura in Turkey; and Massimo Cultraro's narrative of Heinrich Schliemann's interest in Italy from his first journey in 1858, as a tourist, to his last and fatal one in 1890.

December 7, 2018

Gennadius Library hosts the 9th meeting of the Athens Archaeological Research Libraries

At the meeting of the Athens Archaeological Research Libraries, the Gennadius Library shared recent programming and updates to the reclassification project.

November 28, 2018

«Η ζωή είναι αγρίως απίθανη» στην Αθήνα 2018 Παγκόσμια Πρωτεύουσα Βιβλίου! Kinonό, Δευτέρα 3 Δεκεμβρίου στις 9 μ.μ.

Η Αθήνα 2018 Παγκόσμια Πρωτεύουσα Βιβλίου σε συνεργασία με το Θέατρο Δωματίου, τη Γεννάδειο Βιβλιοθήκη και τις Εκδόσεις Ωκεανίδα, καλούν το κοινό σε μια ξεχωριστή εκδήλωση με αφορμή τη συμπλήρωση δέκα χρόνων από το θάνατο της συγγραφέως Μαργαρίτας Καραπάνου.

November 13, 2018

Leda Costaki Discusses Stratis Myrivilis on the ERT News

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.

November 12, 2018

ΟΙ "ΒΙΒΛΙΩΝ ΤΟΠΟΙ" ΞΕΝΑΓΟΥΝΤΑΙ ΣΤΑ ΑΡΧΕΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΑΜΕΡΙΚΑΝΙΚΗΣ ΣΧΟΛΗΣ ΚΛΑΣΙΚΩΝ ΣΠΟΥΔΩΝ

Οι "Βιβλίων Τόποι" και η εμπνεύστριά τους δημοσιογράφος και φιλόλογος Λαμπρινή Κουζέλη ξεναγήθηκαν το Σάββατο 10 Νοεμβρίου 2018 στην ανακαινισμένη Ανατολική Πτέρυγα της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης, όπου έχουν μετεγκατασταθεί όλες οι αρχειακές συλλογές της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών.

June 29, 2018

“Triumph Over Time” in Ano Koufonisi

"Τriumph Over Time," a film about Greece produced in 1947 by the American School, will be played during the summer on the island of Ano Koufonissi, at the old δημοτικό σχολείο, which has been renovated to house the island's antiquities collection. The event is part of Constellations in the Dirt (Αστερισμοί στο Χώμα) organized by NEON and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades

June 25, 2018

Finally in Our New Home!: The “New” Consolidated ASCSA Archives

After several months of extensive remodeling (Nov.2017-March 2018), two months of relocating (April -May 2018), we finally made it to our new home: The East Wing of the Gennadius Library (a.k.a Gennadeion East).

December 4, 2017

VIDEOCAST - ‘The Best Way to Send Knowledge is to Wrap it Up in a Person’

Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan, Doreen C. Spitzer Archivist ASCSA Annual Archives Lecture co-organized with the Fulbright Foundation in Greece.

November 14, 2017

Access to the Archives in the Blegen Library

Owing to the transfer of the Archives in the Blegen Library to the East Wing of the Gennadius Library, researchers will not be able to access the School’s archival collections between January 15th and May 31st, 2018.

September 5, 2017

Landscaping Ancient Agora in the 1950s. Before-and-After Photos

The Ancient Agora of Athens is considered by all, locals and tourists, to be a small oasis in the center of the city. Strolling in the largest archaeological park of Athens, in the shade of tall oaks, planes, and olives, we hardly realize how much effort was devoted to landscaping the site in the early 1950s. That was a major undertaking, one comparable to the reconstruction of the Stoa of Attalos itself. One only needs to see before-and-after photos in order to grasp the magnitude of this achievement.

August 11, 2017

The George Mylonas Papers Catalogued

Born in Izmir, George Mylonas (1898-1988) studied archaeology at the University of Athens and at Johns Hopkins University. He was the ASCSA's first bursar in the 1920s and worked with David M. Robinson at Olynthus. Mylonas taught archaeology at the Washington University Saint Louis from 1933 until his retirement in 1968. Mylonas is known for his excavations at Eleusis and Mycenae. A large part of his papers are housed in the Archives of the American School.

July 7, 2017

School Summer Newsletter

The American School's Summer 2017 issue of the newsletter is now online for viewing.

June 29, 2017

NEH Fellow’s work on antiquities as state gifts has far-reaching implications

Nassos Papalexandrou, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship from the School to spend a year researching “Greek Antiquities as Diplomatic Gifts in Greek-U.S. Relationships after WW II.” An alumnus and former faculty of the ASCSA, Papalexandrou shares insights from his present work in this Q&A.

June 28, 2017

Psychiatrists and psychotherapists from “Antistixi” Visit the ASCSA

To Σάββατο 24 Ιουνίου, ο Δημήτρης και η Ελένη Καραγιάννη, ψυχίατροι-ψυχοθεραπευτές και οι συνεργάτες τους από το θεραπευτικό και εκπαιδευτικό Ινστιτούτο «Αντίστιξη» ξεναγήθηκαν στις εγκαταστάσεις της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών.

June 21, 2017

Meet a Member: Robert Pounder

Meet Robert Pounder, an Emeritus Professor of Classics at Vassar College who has been involved, in one way or another, with the American School for 50 years now.

June 15, 2017

Access to the Archives of the Gennadius Library

Researchers will not be able to access the Archives of the Gennadius Library between November 1, 2017 and June 15, 2018. H πρόσβαση των ερευνητών στα Αρχεία της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης δεν θα είναι δυνατή από 1/11/2017 έως 15/6/2018.

June 13, 2017

Graduate Students from the University of Athens at the ASCSA

Οι μεταπτυχιακοί φοιτητές του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών στο πρόγραμμα Διαχείρισης Μνημείων (Cultural Heritage Management) επισκέφτηκαν τα Αρχεία της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών, με πρωτοβουλία του καθηγητή τους κ. Διονύση Μουρελάτου.

May 15, 2017

Conductor and artistic director Peter Tiboris at the Gennadius Library

Conductor, artistic director, and collector Peter Tiboris visited the Gennadius Library where ASCSA director Jim Wright, librarian Irini Solomonidi, and archivist Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan showed him rare editions from the collections of the Library, and the papers of Dimitri Mitropoulos from the Archives. Thrilled to see some of Mitropoulos's scores and letters, Peter shared with us that he collects batons and that he is proud of owning one of Leonard Bernstein's four batons. He also shared with us Bernstein's memoirs of his rival Dimitri Mitropoulos.

VIDEO: The First Greek Editions of Homer

Take a peek inside our Gennadius Library rare book room with Senior Librarian Irini Solomonidi to learn about the first printed Greek editions of Homer.

April 5, 2017

Nea Erythraia Lyceum Visits the Gennadius Library

Το Λύκειο της Νέας Ερυθραίας στη Γεννάδειο Βιβλιοθήκη για να δει από κοντά τα αρχεία της "Γενιάς του '30"

February 9, 2017

C. M. Woodhouse’s War in Greece in Fiction, Memoir, and History

The Annual Archives Lecture for 2016-17 featured Professor David Roessel of Stockton University who talked about Monty Woodhouse's fictional war stories, published in One Omen (1956).

January 20, 2017

Announcement Concerning Access to the Archives in the Gennadius Library

Researchers will not be able to access the Archives of the G.L. between July 1, 2017 and February 28, 2018. H πρόσβαση των ερευνητών στα Αρχεία της Βιβλιοθήκης δεν θα είναι δυνατή από 1/7/2017 έως 28/2/2018.

Dorothy Burr Thompson’s Photography Gets Publicity in LIFO Magazine

Γαμήλιος χορός στα Παραπούγγια Βοιωτίας το 1924 και η αυστηρή ποίηση μιας παλιάς Ελλάδας. Από τον Στάθη Τσαγκαρουσιάνο της LIFO.

New AMBROSIA Launched

The online home to the catalogues of the Gennadius, Blegen,Wiener Laboratory, and the British School, the new AMBROSIA is simpler and easier to use.

Austrian Students from Vienna at the ASCSA

On October 27th, 2016, Dr. Georg Ladstätter of the Austrian Archaeological Institute and Professor Maria Stassinopoulou of the University of Vienna together with a small group of graduate students visited the Gennadius Library and the Archives of the American School.

Colophon Excavations Archive

Deirmendere, Asia Minor, April 13, 1922. The excavation house is now in a little better order than it was yesterday and the day before... When both the tents were pitched, we gave the two ladies [Hetty Goldman and Lulu Eldrigde] the choice of living quarters and of course they took the lower tent, which we all claim to be better... The beds we have were shipped from Athens in large wooden boxes and we are using these boxes now as our bureaus..." wrote a young Benjamin Meritt (23 years old) to his fiancée Elizabeth Kirkland from Colophon.

66 Annual Reports Digitized and Available Online

66 Annual Reports (1919-1985) were digitized and are available online

Revisiting Greece Through Painting

Former member Brian Nolan has not been to Greece in years, but he often paints scenes of Meteora and Crete.

Schliemann Returns to Japan

One hundred and fifty years after his first journey to China and Japan, Schliemann's spirit recently returned to Japan on the occasion of two exhibits.