Clayton Lehmann's Summer Seminar Reads Elytis and Seferis in the School's Archives
Read MoreThe Gennadius Library is undergoing a major reclassification project of its collections according to the Library of Congress system. This change will allow stack access to the Library’s research collections. In order for the work to be completed most efficiently, the Library will remain closed to the public from May 20 through August 18, 2019. We apologize for the inconvenience. The Gennadius will reopen on Monday August 19, 2019 with a limited summer schedule as follows Monday-Thursday 9:00 – 16.30, Friday 9:00 – 15:00 (closed on Saturday).
Read MoreBlegen Library has just opened for its members and will soon be open to its visitors using Library of Congress Classification system for its collections. Please watch below a video and study a brief manual on the new system.
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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.
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Jonathan Hall, Professor of History and Classics at The University of Chicago, with his students at the ASCSA Archives.
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Blegen Library’s reclassification project is nearly complete and the library will re-open on Wednesday June 5th for ASCSA members only and on June 10th for visitors.
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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.
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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.
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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".
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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.
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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."
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Students from the University of Victoria at the ASCSA Archives
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Mike Tremonte (ASCSA student 1989-1990) with his son Isaiah and friends stopped by the School this morning.
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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.
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At the meeting of the Athens Archaeological Research Libraries, the Gennadius Library shared recent programming and updates to the reclassification project.
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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.
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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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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.
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"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
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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).
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Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan, Doreen C. Spitzer Archivist ASCSA Annual Archives Lecture co-organized with the Fulbright Foundation in Greece.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The American School's Summer 2017 issue of the newsletter is now online for viewing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Read MoreTake a peek inside our Gennadius Library rare book room with Senior Librarian Irini Solomonidi to learn about the first printed Greek editions of Homer.
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Το Λύκειο της Νέας Ερυθραίας στη Γεννάδειο Βιβλιοθήκη για να δει από κοντά τα αρχεία της "Γενιάς του '30"
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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).
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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.
Read MoreΓαμήλιος χορός στα Παραπούγγια Βοιωτίας το 1924 και η αυστηρή ποίηση μιας παλιάς Ελλάδας. Από τον Στάθη Τσαγκαρουσιάνο της LIFO.
Read MoreThe online home to the catalogues of the Gennadius, Blegen,Wiener Laboratory, and the British School, the new AMBROSIA is simpler and easier to use.
Read MoreOn 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.
Read MoreDeirmendere, 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.
Read More66 Annual Reports (1919-1985) were digitized and are available online
Read MoreFormer member Brian Nolan has not been to Greece in years, but he often paints scenes of Meteora and Crete.
Read MoreOne 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.
Read MoreAnd rightly so! How could the papers of the man who penned the manifesto of the "30s Generation" (and also credited by many with coining the term) not be at the Archives of the Gennadius Library, together with the papers of George Seferis, Odysseus Elytis, Stratis Myrivilis, Angelos Terzakis, and Elias Venezis?
Read MoreOn July 1st, 2016, Joshua Capps Lister and his family visited the School and spent time at the Archives looking at documents and photos related to Edward Capps.
Read MoreDorothy Burr Thompson. Φωτογραφίζοντας το τοπίο: Φωτογραφίες 1923-1939.
Read MoreA new finding aid for the Pylos Excavations Archive has replaced the old inventory.
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Dr. Ulrike Muss, University of Vienna
Read MoreProfessor Robert Koehl and a small group of graduate students from Hunter College visited the facilities of the School yesterday.
Read MoreThis Dialectic of Blood and Light. George Seferis - Philip Sherrard. An Exchange: 1947-1971. Edited by Denise Sherrard. Limni, Evia: 2015
Read MorePhilanthropy and volunteerism have played huge roles in the ASCSA's past. This article provides historical context to — as well as continues — the article found in the winter 2016 issue of the newsletter which details current refugee aid initiatives at the School.
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Check the online version of "Γιορτινές σελίδες από τα αρχεία της Γενναδείου" featuring manuscripts from the personal papers of novelists Elias Venezis, Stratis Myrivilis, Vassilis Vassilikos, poets Goerge Seferis and Kostas Varnalis, and others. A feast to the eyes!
Read MoreΕπίτιμος διδάκτορας του πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών ο Βασίλης Βασιλικός
Read MoreIn 1859 Schliemann traveled to Spain. Schliemann's personal diary records his visit to La Granja de San Ildefonso, as well as his unsuccessful efforts to visit the royal family of Spain at their summer residence.
Read MoreΒιβλίων Τόποι Visits the Archives of the Gennadius Library
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Professor of Classics, Chair of the ASCA Managing Committee, and Poet
Read MoreIn 1959 two young women, Ino Ioannidou and Lenio Bartziotou, opened a photographic studio in Athens on 9 Valaoritou.
Read MoreJoel H. Rosenthal, president of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, and Stephen D. Hibbard, vice chairman of the Carnegie Council and a partner at Shearman & Sterling, visited the Gennadius Library on September 16th, 2015, in the company of GL Overseer Phaedon Tamvakakis.
Read MoreOne of Spain's most famous architects and painters Juan Navarro Baldeweg and his wife visited the Gennadius Library last week having one wish: to see Heinrich Schliemann's notebooks
Read MoreMichael Tremonte, ASCSA Regular Member 1989-1990, and his wife Joanna Riesman visited the School's Archives and the Gennadius Library
Read MoreDaniel Weiss, president of Haverford College, and friends visit the Gennadius Library
Read MoreFrom Rome to Athens. Lindsay Harris, Mellon Professor, and Kim Bowes, Director of the American Academy in Rome, on a short two-day visit to the ASCSA. On June 17th, Kim Bowes also delivered a fascinating talk at Cotsen Hall, titled "Roman Peasants: Food, Lives, Landscape."
Read MoreΜεταπτυχιακοί φοιτητές των πανεπιστημίων Αθηνών, Πατρών και Αιγαίου στην ΑΣΚΣΑ
Read MoreΠαράδοξη συγκατοίκηση: το "κουαρτέτο της οδού Πλουτάρχου". Από τον Δημήτρη Ρηγὀπουλο στην Καθημερινή της Κυριακής (24/5/20015).
Read MoreJonathan Hall, professor of Classics at the University of Chicago, and fifteen of his students visited the American School of Classical Studies as part of a study-abroad program entitled "Greek Antiquity and Its Legacy."
Read MoreOn the initiative of Alfonso Lucini Mateo, Ambassador of Spain to Athens, and his wife, Carmen Serrano de Haro, architect of the Spanish Ministry of Public Treasury, a small group of Spanish intellectuals visited the Archives of the Gennadius Library on the evening of May 14th, 2015.
Read MoreArtemis Leontis, professor of Modern Greek in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan, and eight of her students visited the the Archives of the American School of Classical Studies as part of a 10-day study tour of Athens, Santorini, and Delphi.
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Read MoreSurfing the catalog of Lucy Shoe Meritt’s papers in the Bryn Mawr College Special Collections, I came across information about Loring Hall among the visual materials.
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Read MoreIn the Heinrich Schliemann Papers in the Archives of the Gennadius Library, there are four letters preserved from the correspondence between these two learned men: three from Karl Henning and one from Schliemann.
Read MoreWhat does Schliemann have to do with the beginnings of Classical Archaeology at the University of Basel in Switzerland?
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LAASA, the association of Lady Ambassadors and Ambassadors’ Spouses in Athens, presented the results of their Schliemann Project in Cotsen Hall, the auditorium of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA).
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“Speaking Schliemann’s Language: Insights from Cataloguing Languages in Schliemann’s Travel Diaries, 1846-1890"
Read MoreWhat does a Buzzfeed essay with the "f" word in its title have to do with the American School of Classical Studies?
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George Cram Cook, Susan Glaspell, and the Experience of Delphi Linda Ben-Zvi, Professor Emerita, Theater Studies, Tel Aviv University; English and Theater, Colorado State University
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Carl W. Blegen is the most famous American archaeologist ever to work in Greece, and no American has ever had a greater impact on Greek archaeology. Yet Blegen, unlike several others of his generation, until now has found no biographer.
Read MoreIt was the first time that a relative of Elizabeth Pierce Blegen visited the School in decades.
Read MoreFirst it hung on the walls of the American Academy in Rome; then in 1932 it followed its owner, Gorham Phillips Stevens, to Athens where he served as Director of the American School from 1939 to 1947.
Read MoreRobert D. Blegen, nephew of Carl W. Blegen (son of youngest brother John), visited recently the Blegen Library and the Blegen House on Ploutarchou 9
Read MoreOn March 11th, Professor Kostis Kourelis of Franklin and Marshall College delivered a fascinating lecture about architects who worked for the Corinth excavations from 1903 to 1933.
Read MoreThe First Lykeio Vouligamenis Visits the Gennadius Library
Read MoreΟι ώρες λειτουργίας των Αρχείων της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης κατά τη διάρκεια των Εορτών
Read MoreThe collection consists of sketchbooks with pen drawings and watercolors inspired by landscapes and fellow soldiers during Andreas Vourloumis' service at the Albanian forefront in 1940-1941.
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What do George Cram Cook, a Philhellenist who liked to dress in Greek peasant clothes, Cold War Cultural Diplomacy, and European artist Anders Zorn all have in common? They are all the latest subjects in School Archivist Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan's new blog on the widely diverse and interesting items discovered while doing archival research in and about the School's large collection.
Read MoreThe Archives report that the conservation of another 56 architectural drawings by William Bell Dinsmoor has been completed.
Read MoreDescribed as one of the most important figures in postwar Greek literature, poet Nikos Fokas and his wife Angela have donated the poet's personal papers to the Archives of the Gennadius Library.
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To honor the Blegens, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the J. F. Costopoulos Foundation presented a colloquium at Cotsen Hall on May, 31, 2013.
Read MoreOn May 31st, the ASCSA celebrated the Blegens and their contributions to archaeology through a day of insightful lectures and a visit to their former home.
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Anna Venezi Kosmetatou (Venezis' daughter), Takis Theodoropoulos (Writer), Demetra Papaconstantinou (Demos Fellow) and Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan (Doreen Canaday Spitzer Archivist) will present the Elias Venezis' archive.
Read MoreTo honor the Blegens, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the J. F. Costopoulos Foundation will present a colloquium at Cotsen Hall on May, 31, 2013.
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The completion of the cataloguing of the Elias Venezis Papers was celebrated in Cotsen Hall.
Read MoreBreak out the popcorn! The Archives of the ASCSA hosted a popular movie night in Cotsen Hall on March 14th, featuring films with an archaeological or ethnographic focus.
Read MoreHeinrich Schliemann's diary (A1) from his first European travel has been recently published under the title WITHOUT HAVING SEEN THE QUEEN.
Read MoreAuthor Vangelis Raptopoulos donated his papers to the Gennadius Library in September 2012. Characterized as “the most creative, the most passionate writer of his generation,” he is the first author from the 1980's literary generation who has trusted a significant part of his personal archive ("thirty years of creation," as he said) to the Archives of the Gennadius Library. We are grateful to him for his generous decision.
Read MoreRecent funding from the Institute for Aegean Prehistory has enabled us to digitize a considerable part of the Schliemann Papers and make them available on the School's website.
Read MoreΣτις 16 Μαΐου 2012, σε ένα κατάμεστο ακροατήριο, στο Αμφιθέατρο Cotsen της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών, ανακοινώθηκε η ολοκλήρωση της καταγραφής του Aρχείου Παπαϊωάννου και η ανάρτηση του καταλόγου του στην ιστοσελίδα των Αρχείων της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης. Την παρουσίαση του αρχείου ανέλαβαν οι ιστορικοί Αλέξης Μάλλιαρης από το Τμήμα Αρχείων της Αμερικανικής Σχολής, ο Γιώργος Αντωνίου από το Διεθνές Πανεπιστήμιο Ελλάδας και ο Στάθης Καλύβας από το Πανεπιστήμιο Yale. Την παρουσίαση συμπλήρωσε η προσωπική μαρτυρία της κόρης του Παπαϊωάννου και μια εκ των τριών δωρητριών του αρχείου, κ. Νάντια Τζεβελέκου. Χαιρετισμό απηύθυνε ο Δήμαρχος Αγρινίου Παύλος Μοσχολιός.
Read MoreDemos Fellow, Demetra Papakonstantinou, has been assigned the cataloguing of the Elias Venezis Papers
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