Collection: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) was founded in 1881 and is the oldest and largest US overseas research institution. ASCSA Publications, based in Princeton, New Jersey, publishes the extensive Corinth and Agora monograph series, and many other volumes devoted to Hellenic studies. These works are essential reference tools for anyone interested in the archaeology and history of the Mediterranean world.
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The Middle Helladic Pottery (2-volume set)
Lerna is one of the most important prehistoric sites in Greece, having been occupied over a period of 5,000 years, from the 6th to the 1st millennium B.C. This work presents a catalogue and analysis of the Middle Helladic ceramic material found at the site. Published as a set of two volumes: Part...
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The Hexamilion and the Fortress
This fifth volume in the Isthmia series examines earlier attempts to fortify the Isthmus of Corinth and presents the most important testimonia for historical interpretation. The archaeological remains of the Hexamilion are traced from the Gulf of Corinth to the Saronic Gulf, with topographical ma...
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The Metal Objects, 1952-1989
Objects made from bronze, iron, copper, gold, silver and lead, recovered from the sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia, are published in this volume. Many of the pieces were recovered from the debris of the Archaic Temple of Poseidon and belong to the formative phase of the sanctuary during the 7th a...
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The Gymnasium Area
This work presents the marble sculpture found in the Gymnasium Area at Corinth, dating between the C6th B.C. and C5th A.D. It provides insight into sculptural practices after the founding of the Roman colony at Corinth, and knowledge of display context and reuse of sculpture at a gymnasium in a l...
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Kephala
This is the first volume in the final publication of the University of Cincinnati's investigations on the island of Keos. It describes the excavation of a small site on the headland of Kephala, about one kilometer north of the Bronze Age site of Ayia Irini.
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The Archaeology of Xenitia
In this volume, new archaeological data from Epeiros, Kythera, Keos, the Southern Argolid and the Nemea Valley highlight the effects of emigration, and data from Colorado, Philadelphia and Sydney illustrate the effects of immigration.
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Swans and Amber
From papyrus rolls, copied and recycled through the centuries, hundreds of short extracts written by Greek poets in the 7th and 6th centuries B.C. survive. This lovely collection, translated into English by a leading classicist, presents a selection of ca. 100 poems by 17 authors with useful hist...
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The Temple of Apollo Bassitas IV
The definitive publication of the Temple of Apollo at Bassai, in the northwest Peloponnese, this is one of four volumes. Volume IV contains maps, plans, and drawings in oversize format illustrating volumes I and II.
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Cure and Cult in Ancient Corinth
As well as providing a helpful guide to the site of the Aklepieion, on the hillside north of ancient Corinth, this fascinating booklet also offers a unique insight into the work of physicians in the Greek world, and the types of diseases they had to contend with.
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Sandy Pylos
This book traces the archaeological history of Pylos and surrounding regions in Messenia from the Palaeolithic to the present. Designed as much for general readers and travellers interested in ancient Greece as for scholars.
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The Stoa of Attalos II in Athens
The Stoa of Attalos was originally built around 150 BC; in the 1950s it was rebuilt to store and display finds from the Agora excavations. The modern builders learned much about the construction and purpose of the stoa, a ubiquitous classical building type. This heavily illustrated account presen...
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The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore
Situated on the slopes of Acrocorinth, which rises to the south of the main part of the ancient city, the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore was the focus of excavations from 1961 through 1973. This is the first volume of final publication and presents pottery used in the sanctuary from the Protocorin...
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The Athenian Agora (Greek language edition)
In a newly revised version of this popular site guide, the current director of excavations in the Athenian Agora gives a brief account of the history of the ancient centre of Athens. The text has been updated and expanded to cover the most recent archaeological discoveries, and the guide now feat...
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Socrates in the Agora
This stimulating little book aims to place Socrates in his physical setting, using textual references to follow his progress walking through the Athenian Agora. It sheds new light on the great philosopher's life, and provides a vivid reconstruction of daily life at the centre of classical Athens.
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Kostas Varnalis's Papers
Kostas Varnalis (1884-1974) was a Bulgarian-born Greek writer and member of the demoticist movement in Greece. As a poet he was an important contemporary of Angelos Sikelianos and Nikos Kazantzakis. This book presents for the first time an in-depth view of this poet's literary work and life throu...
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Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy
These 20 papers explore ancient notions and experiences of childhood around the Mediterranean, from prehistory to late antiquity.
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Pots and Pans of Classical Athens
By mingling images on well-preserved Greek vases with the more fragmentary ceramics recovered during excavations at the Agora, the authors show how different vessel forms were used in classical Athens. By linking the shapes of pots with their social functions, this book gives meaning to the ancie...
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Ancient Corinth (text in modern Greek)
This is the first official guidebook to the site of ancient Corinth published by the ASCSA in over 50 years, and it comes fully updated with the most current information, colour photos, maps, and plans. It is an indispensable resource for the casual tourist or professional archaeologist new to th...
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A Culture of Translation
This volume of essays focuses principally on the collection of books of British and Irish antiquarian scholars held in the Gennadius Library. The book explores the work of some of the most pioneering British and Irish 18th and early 19th century antiquarians, artists and architects who voyaged in...
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The Athenian Citizen
A concise introduction to the workings of ancient democracy, The Athenian Citizen has been a bestseller since it was first published almost 60 years ago. Illustrated entirely in colour, with updates and revisions by the current director of excavations at the Agora, this new edition will continue ...
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Ceramicus Redivivus
This volume presents selected material associated with potters' workshops and pottery production from some 14 Early Iron Age contexts northwest of the Athenian Acropolis that range in date from the Protogeometric through Archaic periods.
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Debris from a Public Dining Place in the Athenian Agora
In 1972 a large deposit of pottery and other finds from the mid-5th century B.C. were found in a pit just west of the Royal Stoa in the Athenian Agora. A complete catalogue arranges the finds by type and in chronological order.
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The Temple of Apollo Bassitas III
The definitive publication of the Temple of Apollo at Bassai, in the northwest Peloponnese, this is one of four volumes. Volume III contains the catalogue of drawings of the measured blocks; reproductions of 19th- and 20th-century drawings and unpublished photographs, as well as photographs of si...
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The Shaft Graves and Other Late Helladic I and II Remains
2026 recipient of the Anna Marguerite McCann Award for Fieldwork Reports from the Archaeological Institute of America. This volume presents funerary and domestic remains from the Late Helladic (LH) period at the settlement of Lerna, an important prehistoric site on the Gulf of Argos excavated by ...
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An Ancient Shopping Center
Primarily a political centre, the Agora was also the focus of a varied commercial life. This booklet illustrates the evidence for such diverse trades as shoe-making, fish mongering, weaving and the manufacture of perfumes. Vivid illustrations and useful resources, such as a table of prices and co...
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A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece
This innovative study of the southwestern Peloponnese or Morea combines the study of unpublished Ottoman documents, other historical sources and the results of archaeological fieldwork to explore the historical and economic geography of a particular region of Greece in the early 18th century.
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The Potters' Quarter
The long-awaited final part of the publication of the Corinth Potters' Quarter is based on the work of the excavator, A. N. Stillwell, edited and supplemented after her death by J. L. Benson.
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Samothrace (text in modern Greek)
The island of Samothrace in the north Aegean was home to one of the most famous panhellenic sanctuaries in the ancient world, the Sanctuary of the Great Gods. This official guide to the site was revised and updated by its longtime excavation director, and is copiously illustrated and includes fou...
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East of the Theater
This volume presents the first attempt at Corinth to analyse the entire corpus of glass found in a single area, that located just east of the Theatre This ground-breaking study provides a tantalizing glimpse into the lives of everyday Corinthians, advancing glass studies both within Greece and th...
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The Athenian Agora Site Guide
This definitive guide to the archaeological remains in the civic and commercial centre of ancient Athens is an essential companion to the interested visitor, as well as to students of the topography of the classical city. It is intended for visitors touring the site, and is arranged topographical...
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The Late Bronze Age Settlement and Early Iron Age Sanctuary
The final report on the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age evidence at Isthmia (pottery, metalwork, terracottas, architecture and other constructions) from excavations conducted by the University of Chicago at the sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia between 1952 and 1989.
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Hidden Treasures at the Gennadius Library
The New Griffon volume 12 seeks to highlight several discoveries in a variety of areas and time periods: Father Konstantinos Terzopoulos explores 16 manuscripts of Byzantine chant; Leonora Navari presents the published works of Cardinal Bessarion, one of the heroes of Joannes Gennadius because of...
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Late Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Pottery
This volume presents the Late Classical through Roman pottery from the University of Chicago excavations at Isthmia (1952-1989).
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Attic Grave Reliefs that Represent Women in the Dress of Isis
The author investigates the appearance of a fashion in clothing, involving a knotted mantle worn across the chest, on many Attic stelae of the Roman period. She suggests that this style can be traced to Egyptian roots, and might have been particularly associated with a cult of Isis, popular among...
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Charis
Scholars of Bronze Age archaeology present papers that address aspects of social, political, religious and ritual significance in wall paintings, matters of chronology, regional trade and interaction, and Cretan architecture. Scholars of the Archaic, Classical and Roman periods explore issues of ...
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The Julian Basilica (Corinth 22)
This richly illustrated volume provides a contextual study of the Julian Basilica of Ancient Corinth. It considers the architectural remains, the sculptural remains, and the epigraphical material, in each case providing extensive catalogues with new photos, in addition to colour reconstructions o...
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Waterworks in the Athenian Agora
This book discusses the complex engineering that channelled fresh water into the Agora and disposed of waste water, and shows some of the ornate wells and fountain houses where ancient Athenians gathered to drink and bathe.
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Life, Death, and Litigation in the Athenian Agora
As well as describing the spaces where judgments were made in the Agora (such as the Stoa Basileios, office of the King Archon), the author discusses the progress of some famous cases (known from the speeches of orators like Demosthenes), such as the patrimony suit of a woman named Plangon agains...
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The East Side of the Agora
The Stoa of Attalos now covers the remains of several centuries of previous occupation. The author's success in making a coherent and orderly presentation of the architectural history of the site rests on the care and diligence of the excavators as well as his own painstaking search through the r...
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Ottoman Athens
This collection of 12 essays explores the architecture, antiquities, cartography, and documentary sources from the period, shedding light on little-studied material and illuminating daily life in Greece's most famous city during Ottoman rule.
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A Guide to the Palace of Nestor, Mycenaean Sites in Its Environs, and the Chora Museum
This beautifully illustrated colour guide surveys the Mycenaean buildings known as the Palace of Nestor, discovered in 1939 above the modern town of Pylos in southwest Greece. It reconstructs life in the citadel and its associated tombs, and also describes the surrounding landscape.
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Hellenistic Relief Molds from the Athenian Agora
Over 100 clay molds found between 1931 and 1977 in the fills within the three great Hellenistic stoas that once lined the Agora (the Middle Stoa, the Stoa of Attalos, and the South Stoa) are published in this book.
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The Tiled-Roof Phenomenon in Early Helladic Greece
This study presents the Early Helladic (EH) II ceramic roofing tile fragments from Zygouries, a site excavated by Carl Blegen more than a century ago. It is the first publication of an entire assemblage of EH roof tiles, an often neglected find on archaeological sites.
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Triumph Over Time, 1947 (European edition: PAL-format DVD)
A 1947 documentary commissioned by the ASCSA shows Greece rebounding from the horrors of World War II and the staff of the American School hard at work preparing archaeological sites for presentation to post-war tourists. An accompanying essay describes the making of the movie and its place in th...
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The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: The Inscriptions
Excavations in the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore on Acrocorinth, 1961-1975, produced more than 170 inscribed objects of stone, bronze, bone, lead weights, pottery (graffiti and dipinti), clay pinakes, magical lead tablets, and in a mosaic. This new Corinth volume presents all of these inscriptions.
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The Symposium in Context
This book presents the first well-preserved set of sympotic pottery which served a Late Archaic house in the Athenian Agora. The deposit contains household and fine-ware pottery, nearly all the figured pieces of which are forms associated with communal drinking.
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Sculpture II
A catalogue of the sculpture discovered during excavations by the University of California at Los Angeles in the sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia. The sculpture ranges in date from ca. 100 B.C. to ca. A.D. 400, with most of the 107 pieces included belonging to the mid-2nd century.
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The Birth of Democracy
This is the catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Archives in Washington D.C. to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary of the beginnings of democracy in Athens, interpreted as the implementation of Cleisthenes' governmental reforms.
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