Blegen Library

Blegen Library, founded in 1888, is one of the world's premier research libraries for classical studies and archaeology. Its collection, covering aspects of Greek civilization from earliest prehistory to late antiquity, includes more than 120,000 books and periodicals. Our mission is to develop and maintain a first rank research collection in support of the academic programs, membership, and cooperating institutions of the ASCSA, and of the hundreds of qualified scholars who use the library as visitors.

If you're a first-time visitor, please click here to learn how to obtain a visitor's card and start exploring our collection.

For any inquiries contact us at blegenlibrarian@ascsa.edu.gr  or Ask a Librarian  

For up-to-date information on COVID-19 safety measures click here

    Highlights

• During the Easter holiday period, the Blegen Library will be closed to visitors from Good Friday, April 14, through Easter Tuesday, April 18, 2023. On Holy Thursday, April 13, the Library will close at 17:00. (March 31, 2023)

• Check out our new acquisitions for March (March 31, 2023)

• Students from the Experimental School of the University of Athens visited the Blegen with their teacher on Wednesday, March 29. (March 30, 2023)

• Blegen library will be closed to visitors on Saturday, March 25, 2023 in observance of the National Holiday (March 20, 2023)

• Check out our new acquisitions for February (March 1, 2023)

• Blegen library will be closed to visitors on Monday, February 27th, in observance of the Clean Monday Holiday.

• Students and teachers from the 4th High School of Alimos visited our library on Jan. 27 (February 1, 2023). Read more

• Check out our new acquisitions for January (January 27, 2023)

• During the Christmas holiday period, the Blegen library will be closed on the following days (December 2, 2022)

• Check out our November's acquisition lists (December 1, 2022)

• Τhe Βlegen Library will be closed to visitors on Thursday Νοvember 24 and Friday November 25 in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday.

• Check out October's acquisition lists (November 7, 2022)

• Remember to check out Recent Donations to the library (October 31, 2022).

• Bloomsbury Cultural History collection of e-books: Blegen Library has activated a trial for this collection which will last until October 26. Have a look at the Featured Content, and browse Cultural History series. (September 22)

• Check out August's acquisition lists (August 30, 2022).

• The newly published Isthmia volume is now "on shelf" in the library (August 16, 2022)

• Trismegistos: New online resource available through ASCSA network (August 1, 2022)