July 6, 2020

Webinar - Live from Corinth

Join us in watching the video archive of first episode of our "Live from Corinth", with Dr. Ioulia Tzonou, Associate Director of Corinth Excavations and Eleni Gizas, Steinmetz Family Foundation Museum Fellow at Ancient Corinth.

July 6, 2020

Notes from Naxos

Updated (6/7) - ASCSA Members Evan Levine and Rebecca Levitan share their work on landscape survey and Greek sculpture while in Naxos!

July 1, 2020

Dining Room in New Student Center Named in Memory of Eugene Vanderpool

Anonymous trustee names Eugene Vanderpool Dining Room in honor of School’s esteemed Professor of Archaeology from 1949 to 1971.

June 30, 2020

Blegen Library's Reopening

The Blegen Library will remain closed for the summer. We hope to open to non-members in September so please consult the School’s website at that time for further information.

June 26, 2020

Webinar - Museums, Society, and the Public Interest

Join us in watching the video archive of the discussion of Daniel Weiss, President and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with Maria Georgopoulou, Director of the Gennadius Library, ASCSA.

June 24, 2020

Diana E. E. and Fred S. Kleiner Name Saloni in New Student Center

The American School is pleased to announce that Diana E. E. and Fred S. Kleiner have named the Saloni in the new Student Center.

June 22, 2020

Dental Cast Tutorial

Watch our tutorial from the Wiener Laboratory of Archaeological Sciences with Dimitris Michailidis and Zoe Chalatsi.

June 18, 2020

Webinar - The Birth of Democracy in Ancient Athens: A Bioarchaeological Perspective

Join us in watching our second episode of our "Live from the Lab", with Dr. Jane Buikstra.

June 18, 2020

Notice to Members

Please read the message from the Director to our Members, regarding operation updates of the School.

June 16, 2020

Trustees Lead the Way in Student Center Campaign

The American School is proud to acknowledge its Board of Trustees for their pivotal leadership on the Student Center Campaign.

June 14, 2020

Late Bronze Age Tablewares as an Index of Behavioural Variation, a Metrical and Volumetric Study

Join us in watching the video archive of our webinar.

June 12, 2020

Construction Underway on New Student Center

The American School is pleased to announce that construction is underway on the new Student Center.

June 9, 2020

Gennadius Library closed August 14-21, 2020

The Gennadius Library will be closed August 14-21, 2020.

June 9, 2020

Managing Committee Statement in Support of Black, Indigenous and People of Colour Communities

Please read our statement from the officers and executive committee of the Managing Committee and the ad hoc Committee on Diversity and Inclusion of the American School.

June 9, 2020

American School Releases 137th and 138th Annual Reports Highlighting Major Accomplishments and Work

The American School is pleased to announce the release of its biennial report covering the 2017–2019 academic years.

June 3, 2020

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 2, 2020

Phokion Potamianos Establishes Thalia Potamianos Annual Lecture Series on the Impact of Greek Culture

We are pleased to announce that Gennadius Library Overseer Phokion Potamianos has established a new lecture series that will examine the reception and continuing relevance and impact of Greek thought and culture.

June 1, 2020

Update on Travel

Important update on travel from North America to Greece

June 1, 2020

Intensive Cross-Cultural Experiences – The Katharine Butterworth Papers

May 29, 2020

Γεωγραφία, Κοινωνία και Ασθένεια: Μαθήματα από την ιστορία της ελονοσίας στην Ελλάδα

Παρακολουθήστε το βίντεο από το διαδικτυακό σεμινάριο της κας. Γαρδίκα.

May 27, 2020

Hesperia 89.2 Now Online!

We are pleased to announce the publication of Hesperia 89.2. Topics in this issue include an overview of zooarchaeological evidence from the Neolithic settlement at Tsoungiza, a look at settlement patterns at Priniatikos Pyrgos in East Crete during EM III–MM IA, a study on small and miniature vases from Ancient Corinth, and an examination of a statue base in the Athenian Agora.

May 27, 2020

ASCSA Publications Open Access Response to COVID-19

Learn more about how ASCSA Publications is acting to support and facilitate scholarly research

May 27, 2020

Destruction, Survival, and Economic Recovery in the Greek World

Join us in watching the video archive of our webinar.

May 24, 2020

Live from the Lab

Join us in watching the first episode of our webinar series, "Live from the Lab"

May 18, 2020

OnLine Exhibition - History of Greek Printing

Explore our OnLine exhibition by Irini Solomonidi, Senior Librarian of The Gennadius Library

May 14, 2020

ASCSA Responses to COVID-19

Please read our responses to COVID-19
Updated May 14th

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 11, 2020

Gala 2020 Postponed Until May 6, 2021

Please read the lastest update on Gala 2020.

May 9, 2020

Academic Program Farewell Video

Join us in watching our farewell video of the 2019-2020 Academic Program

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

May 1, 2020

Loring Hall Gevmata - Episode 2

Join us in watching the second episode of your favorite Loring Hall Gevmata.

April 28, 2020

Discover the Stathatos Room

Interested to find out the history of the Stathatos Room in Gennadius Library?

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.

April 17, 2020

Blegen Library - Wishes

Easter Wishes and reminders by Blegen Library

April 15, 2020

Loring Hall Gevmata - Episode 1

Interested in learning the secrets behind your favorite Loring Hall Gevmata?

April 10, 2020

Message from the Director

Watch the message from the Director of the American School.

April 2, 2020

Ambassador Boura Appointed as President of Gennadius Library Philoi

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the Gennadius Library are honored to announce the recent appointment of Dr. Catherine Boura to the position of President of The Philoi: Association of Friends of the Gennadius Library in Greece.

April 1, 2020

Videocast - Ionic Polychromy - Beyond Doric Analogies and Homogenizing Methodologies

Watch our first ever Webinar / Tea talk

March 31, 2020

Update about the 2020-2021 Academic Year

Please read our updates concerning the 2020 - 2021 Academic Year

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 14, 2020

Update on COVID-19 – School Closed

March 11, 2020

Important Notice - Libraries Closed

March 9, 2020

Bringing the Archives to Life: Reflections from Author Sylvie Dumont

Sylvie Dumont, Secretary and Registrar of the Agora Excavations, discusses her new publication, Vrysaki: A Neighborhood Lost in Search of the Athenian Agora.

March 9, 2020

Videocast - Conference - The Legacy of Francesco Morosini in Crete, Athens and the Morea (January 23-24)

The video archive from our two day conference entitled "The Legacy of Francesco Morosini in Crete, Athens and the Morea" is now available.

March 2, 2020

New Publication! Vrysaki: A Neighborhood Lost in Search of the Athenian Agora

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce the publication of Vrysaki: A Neighborhood Lost in Search of the Athenian Agora by Sylvie Dumont.

February 25, 2020

Τελευταίες ξεναγήσεις στην έκθεση "Η κληρονομιά του Φραγκίσκου Μοροζίνι στην Κρήτη, την Αθήνα και τον Μοριά"

Η έκθεση «Η κληρονομιά του Φραγκίσκου Μοροζίνι στην Κρήτη, την Αθήνα και τον Μοριά» ολοκληρώνεται το Σάββατο 29 Φεβρουαρίου. Τα κλειδιά της πόλης των Αθηνών θα ξαναγυρίσουν στην Βερόνα και η αυλαία θα κλείσει πίσω από αυτή την ενδιαφέρουσα έκθεση της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης.

February 25, 2020

Hands on in the Lab: Meet Wiener Lab Assistant Zoe Chalatsi

Introduced to the Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Sciences by Professor Stefania Chlouveraki, Zoe Chalatsi started working in the Lab in early 2011.

February 24, 2020

Q&A with New Publications Project Editor Sarah Rous

A Regular and Associate Member in 2013-2015, Sarah Rous rejoins the School in the Publications department in Princeton!

February 20, 2020

Hesperia 89.1 Now Online!

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce the publication of Hesperia 89.1. Topics in this issue include an overview of the Neolithic settlement on Tsoungiza at Ancient Nemea, an editio princeps of 21 columnar grave monuments from the Athenian Agora, a study of miniature herms that depict Alexander the Great, and a report on the 2018 excavation season at Corinth.

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.

February 18, 2020

In Memoriam: Ing-Marie Raptis

Our friend and colleague Ing-Marie Raptis, after three months of struggle, has passed away on February 5, 2020.

February 10, 2020

School Elects Two Trustees from California

The American School is pleased to announce that George M. Marcus and Charles W. Steinmetz were recently elected to its Board of Trustees.

January 30, 2020

John Papadopoulos Speaks at the National Arts Club

On January 27, 2020, Professor John Papadopoulos presented his lecture, "New Evidence from Ancient Methone," at the historic National Arts Club in New York City.

January 29, 2020

Group from Kalamata visits the Gennadius Library

Professor Ioannis Theodorakopoulos with a group from Kalamata, among them the former mayor Geogios Koutsoulis, visited the Gennadius Library on Saturday January 25.

January 28, 2020

Delaware University students visit the Gennadius Library

Professors Dr. David Satran, and Dr. Tyson Sukava, visited the Gennadius Library on Wednesday, January 22, leading a group of 34 students from the University of Delaware.

January 23, 2020

Q&A with Hesperia Fellow Ashley Eckhardt

Ashley Eckhardt, the American School’s first Hesperia Fellow, speaks about her editorial work, art historical research, and experiences at the School.

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 31, 2019

Winter 2019 Newsletter

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

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.

December 16, 2019

Videocast - "Euchenor's Corinth: Mycenaean Habitation from Acrocorinth to Korakou"

Mycenaean Corinth was considered non-existent for the longest time. Based on the evidence produced by the ASCSA on the site of Ancient Corinth and by the Archaeological Service in the area, I argue for wealthy Corinth.

December 16, 2019

Q&A with First Sanev Fellow

Dr. Silvana Blazevska is the first recipient of the Voislav Sanev fellowship, which provides a North Macedonian scholar the opportunity to use the resources of the ASCSA.

December 6, 2019

Videocast - "Erasing Macedonians: The Politics of Athenian Space in 200 B.C."

Under increasing external pressure, in 200 B.C., the Athenians abandoned the policy of strict external neutrality which they has pursued since 229, when they literally bought back their freedom from the Macedonians. Now, they declared war on King Philip V of Macedon and engaged in a period of erasing Macedonians from their inscribed documents and their cityscape.

December 6, 2019

Videocast - "Socrates and the Health of Athens"

Socrates lived most of his adult life in a city suffering the effects of near continuous warfare (in which he took part) as well as significant epidemic disease, known generally as “the plague” described by Thucydides in memorably searing language in Book 2 of his history.

November 25, 2019

New Book on Ottoman Athens

We are very proud to announce the publication of “Ottoman Athens: Archaeology, Topography, History” edited by Maria Georgopoulou (Director of the Gennadius Library) and Konstantinos Thanasakis [289 pages, 95 illustrations]. The book was published by the Gennadius Library and the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, with the support of the Association of the Philoi of the Gennadius Library.

November 21, 2019

Hesperia 88.4 Now Online!

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce the publication of Hesperia 88.4. Topics in this issue include the reexamination of a multifigured Protoarchaic cup from Crete, the study of the Classical-period sculpture from the friezes of the Temple of Ares in the Athenian Agora, an exploration of the political value of timber in the 5th century, and a look at the influences of 5th-century Athenian art and civic religion on the staging of Euripides’ Ion.

November 21, 2019

Hellenic University Club of Wilmington Hosts “Conversations with the American School”

The Hellenic University Club (HUC) of Wilmington hosted “Conversations with the American School” at the historic Hagley Museum and Library in Delaware. Originally the site of the gunpowder works founded by E. I. du Pont in 1802, Hagley is now a museum set on 235 acres of land that tell the history of American business, technology, and innovation, and its impact on the world.

November 21, 2019

Trustee Mary Lefkowitz Honored by Alpha Omega Council

On Saturday, November 16, 2019, the Alpha Omega Council (AOC) presented Professor Mary Lefkowitz with the coveted Philhellene Award at their 2019 Honors Gala. The annual dinner event was held at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. Nearly 300 guests were in attendance.

November 21, 2019

2020 Aristeia Award Announcement

The Association is pleased to announce that Susan I. Rotroff has been named the 2020 recipient of the Aristeia Award for Distinguished Alumni/ae of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

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 19, 2019

Stephanie Larson Speaks at Pancyprian Women’s Event

The Pancyprian Women’s Initiative Network (WIN) hosted a well-attended lecture by Stephanie Larson, Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Bucknell University, on Thursday, November 14, 2019.

November 19, 2019

ASCSA Director Jenifer Neils Speaks at Macricostas Event in Western Connecticut

Professor Neils was invited by Western Connecticut State University (WCSU) in Danbury, Connecticut to present a lecture on “The Parthenon: Then and Now” (October 22, 2019) during their inaugural “Macricostas Experience Week” to celebrate Greek culture.

November 19, 2019

American School Launches 2019–20 Annual Appeal Campaign

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.

November 5, 2019

Videocast - "Goats and Other Animals at Azoria: Public Feasting and Domestic Dining in Context"

Video archive of the lecture given by Flint Dibble (Wiener Laboratory Postdoctoral Fellow), on October 31, 2019

November 4, 2019

Videocast - "Spolia: Programmatic, Enigmatic, Problematic"

Video archive of the lecture given by Dale Kinney (Eugenia Chase Guild Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, Bryn Mawr), on October 29, 2019.

November 4, 2019

Videocast - "Watchdogs of the People? The Demagogues of Ancient Greece"

Video archive of the lecture given by Matthew Simonton (Arizona State University), on October 24, 2019

October 31, 2019

Videocast - "Εκδήλωση για τα 50 χρόνια από τον θάνατο του Στράτη Μυριβήλη"

Βίντεο της διάλεξης από τους, Μάριο Κυπαρίσση-Μώρο, Παντελή Μπουκάλα, Γιώργο Συρίμη και Λένα Παπαληγούρα, που πραγματοποιήθηκε στις 15 Οκτωβρίου.

October 18, 2019

Videocast - "Notion Archaeological Research Project: The Biography of an Ancient Greek City in Ionia"

Christopher Ratté Notion was a Greek city on the western coast of Ionia, 50 km south of Smyrna. It was closely associated with the inland town of Colophon, 15 km to the north.

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.

September 18, 2019

Videocast - "Himera: Excavations in the Western Necropolis. The Common Graves of the Soldiers Fallen in the Battles of 480 and 409 BC"

The video archive of the lecture of Stefano Vassalo, about Himera and the excavations in the Western Necropolis, is now available to watch in our digital video archive.

September 17, 2019

Opening of the exhibition "Spolia: Transcripts of the Stones of the Little Metropolis"

The opening of the exhibition "Spolia: Transcripts of the Stones of the Little Metropolis" that took place on Tuesday September 10 in the Ioannis Makriyannis Wing was a great success.

September 17, 2019

Videocast - "Αναχρησιμοποίηση λίθων. Ναός Παναγίας Γοργοεπηκόου"

The video of the lecture by Manolis Korres on "Αναχρησιμοποίηση λίθων. Ναός Παναγίας Γοργοεπηκόου", is now available to watch.

September 9, 2019

Gennadius Library acquires 18th century paper icon of Mount Sinai

The Library acquired a very rare paper icon with a general view of Mount Sinai (Γενική ἄποψις τοῦ Ὄρους Σινᾶ), at the June Vergos Auction in Athens

September 9, 2019

Πίναξ Γεωγραφικός της Ελλάδος, Vienna, 1800 donated by Curtis Runnels

Professor Curtis Runnels donates to the Gennadius Library, Anthemos Gazis’s printing of the first map of modern Greece based on an original by Reghas Ferraios (Πίναξ Γεωγραφικός της Ελλάδος, Vienna, 1800) with contemporary hand coloring.

September 4, 2019

Hesperia 88.3 Now Online!

Topics include a LH wheelmade terracotta bovid figure from Pylos, LBA Aiginetan coarse pottery at Kanakia on Salamis, an ornate woven textile from 9th-century Gordion, and the concept of the Ionian agora.

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.

August 21, 2019

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.

August 2, 2019

Videocast - When Hollywood Came to Greece: Spyros Skouras and the Politics of Cine-Antiquity

Lecture by Prof. Konstantinos Nikoloutsos, Saint Joseph's University

July 30, 2019

Panagiotis Karkanas Contributes to Groundbreaking Paper That May Alter the Story of Human Prehistory

Dr. Panagiotis Karkanas, Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science Director at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, contributed to a groundbreaking paper about Apidima Cave fossils. A skull fragment discovered there is the oldest modern human fossil ever discovered in Europe and hints that humans began leaving Africa far earlier than once thought.

July 23, 2019

Videocast - From Kallias to Kritias: Athens in the Second Half of the 5th Century

International Conference, 6-8 June 2019

July 20, 2019

Blegen Library Closure: UPDATED

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.

July 16, 2019

Videocast - Dressing Empire: Ottoman Costume Albums and Transculturation

Elisabeth Fraser, University of South Florida

July 16, 2019

Videocast - Echoes of the Classics - A Voice and Piano Recital by CHIMERA

The concert is sponsored by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the Athens Centre.

July 3, 2019

Videocast - Συνάντηση με το Σταύρο Ξαρχάκο: Ένας περίπατος σε μια δημιουργική πορεία που συνεχίζεται αδιάκοπα.

Σύλλογος Φίλων Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης

July 2, 2019

Videocast - Destruction, Survival, and Economic Recovery in the Greek World (May 16-18)

International Conference, 16-18 May 2019 Organized by Sylvian Fachard and Edward Harris

June 26, 2019

Blegen library will close at 16.30

We regret to inform you that today, June 26, Blegen Library will close at 16.30. We're very sorry for the inconvenience.