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 Fauna
The descriptive sections of this book provide surprising insights into the lives of the inhabitants of Bronze Age Lerna, perched on the edge of the Gulf of Argos.
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Sculpture: The Reliefs from the Theater
The remodelling of the theatre at ancient Corinth in the 2nd century A.D. included lavish decorations, the chief of which were three dramatic friezes. In publishing them this book presents the most ambitious sculptural program known among theatres on the Greek mainland.
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Samothrace
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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On the Edge of a Roman Port (2-volume set)
This volume presents the final results of an investigation of an array of Early Roman buildings and burials at Kenchreai, the eastern port of ancient Corinth. It paints a picture of a Corinthian community, small but prosperous, actively participating in an urban elite culture expressed through de...
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Land of Sikyon
Ancient Sikyon, in the northeastern Peloponnese, was a major player on the Mediterranean stage, especially in the Archaic and Hellenistic periods. This comprehensive study combines a discussion of the geological and historical background with the results of original research based on many years o...
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Dogs in the Athenian Agora (Greek language edition)
In this book, readers are shown how dogs fit into ancient Greek society with material from the last 90 years of excavations at the Athenian Agora. Anyone curious about dogs in antiquity and how they relate to dogs in the present day will be sure to find interesting material in this portable, affo...
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Triumph Over Time, 1947 (North American edition: NTSC-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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Kommos
As well as being an archaeological guide, this beautifully illustrated volume tells the story of 30 years of fieldwork and study at one of the lesser known, but most intellectually fascinating, sites in Crete. In prehistory, Kommos was a busy harbor town with trading links extending to Egypt and ...
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Landscape Archaeology in Southern Epirus, Greece 1
The first in an anticipated two-volume set presents the results of the Nikopolis Project that was conducted between 1991 and 1996; the first large-scale, systematic survey in this region of Greece.
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Demeter and Persephone in Ancient Corinth
When the Roman tourist Pausanias visited Corinth around A.D. 160, he saw many shrines and buildings high up to the south of the city, on the slopes of Acrocorinth. This booklet describes excavations at one of these, the Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone (Kore).
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Sculpture I
This volume presents sculptural finds made by the University of Chicago at Isthmia during their excavations from 1952 to 1967. The finds range in date from the 7th century B.C. to the 3rd century A.D. but are mostly fragmentary objects of Roman date.
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Sculpture: The Assemblage from the Theater
This book presents in detail the freestanding sculptures of the Corinth Theatre assembled from fragmentary remains, and reveals other architectural sculptures and figures. Drawing on over 30 years of study, the author also presents her ideas about sculptural decoration in the Corinth theatre and ...
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Hellenistic Pottery: The Plain Wares
This is the third and final volume in the publication of the Hellenistic pottery unearthed by the American excavations in the Athenian Agora.
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Marbleworkers in the Athenian Agora
This full-colour guide sheds new light on the marble industry in and around the Agora, including rich evidence for sculptors' workshops, their tools, and techniques. The text discusses the works of both famous and anonymous artists.
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The Athenian Agora Museum Guide (text in modern Greek)
Written for the general visitor, the Athenian Agora Museum Guide is a companion to the 2010 edition of the Athenian Agora Site Guide and leads the reader through all of the display spaces within the Stoa of Attalos in the Athenian Agora - the terrace, the ground-floor colonnade, and the newly ope...
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Amphoras and the Ancient Wine Trade
Amphoras were used in the ancient world to transport various different types of products, including wine and oil. This booklet is based on broken pottery found during the excavation of the Agora in Athens, but the author ranges far beyond the confines of Athens in her discussion of the purpose an...
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Studies in Athenian Architecture, Sculpture, and Topography Presented to Homer A. Thompson
Twenty-one papers on various aspects of Athenian art and society by the students and friends of Homer A. Thompson, a noted classical archaeologist and excavator of the Athenian Agora.
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The Propylaia to the Athenian Akropolis II
This publication presents the results of research conducted on the Propylaia of the Athenian Akropolis by William Bell Dinsmoor, who began his study in 1908, and William Bell Dinsmoor Jr., who took up the project in 1962.
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Archaic Corinthian Pottery and the Anaploga Well
In the first section of this book, Amyx catalogues and discusses more than 200 fragments of Archaic Corinthian pottery with figure decoration. In the second section, Lawrence presents the contents of a well dug and filled in the Archaic period, the material ranging from Early Protocorinthian to L...
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The Propylaia to the Athenian Akropolis
The famous monumental gateway to the Akropolis is a successor to a Mycenaean building. But what did this Bronze Age gateway, in use up to the 5th century B.C., look like, and what did the architect Mnesikles tear down before he started his construction? This detailed architectural study explores ...
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Studies in Archaic Corinthian Vase Painting
Two important contributions to Greek pottery studies.
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The Prepalatial Cemeteries at Mochlos and Gournia and the House Tombs of Bronze Age Crete
This book is a study of the house tombs of Crete based on a reexamination of the extant remains at the cemeteries of Gournia and Mochlos. Excavated in the beginning of the century by Harriet Boyd Hawes (Gournia) and Richard B. Seager (Mochlos), the cemeteries underwent cleaning operations in 1971...
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Inscriptions: Horoi, Poletai Records and Leases of Public Lands
The three types of inscription from the Athenian Agora presented in this volume are all concerned with important civic matters. The three main sections of the book are followed by combined concordances and indices, with photographs of all stones not previously published.
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Bronzeworkers in the Athenian Agora
As well as illustrating some of the surviving finished products, the author discusses the techniques used to cast bronze and the level of skill involved in producing complex metal statuary.
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New Directions in the Skeletal Biology of Greece
In addition to including stimulating case studies, ranging in date from the Palaeolithic to modern periods, the 17 chapters in this book provide an overview of bioarchaeological research across Greece and Cyprus.
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Landscape Archaeology and the Medieval Countryside
This volume presents the results of the medieval component of the Nemea Valley Archaeological Project (NVAP) survey conducted from 1985-1990. The archaeological evidence points to a proliferation of sites dating to the 12th-13th century A.D.
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Fragmentary Decrees from the Athenian Agora
This is the editiones principes of the most fragmentary inscriptions found during excavations in the Athenian Agora between 1931 and 1967. These comprise parts of 100 decrees of the Athenian state and other political bodies. The inscriptions are illustrated and described, with a transcription of ...
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The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: The Roman Pottery and Lamps
In the series of final publications for the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore, this book presents ceramic material from the Roman period (primarily from the middle of the 1st century to the end of the 4th century A.D.) in which is included the relatively small number of Roman lamps.
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The Campaign of the Falieri and Piraeus in the Year 1827
This book presents the diary of Captain Thomas Douglas Whitcombe, a young English gunnery officer who in 1827 participated as a volunteer in an expedition to relieve the Turkish siege of the Acropolis of Athens. The journal gives an eyewitness account of the actions of the Greek Army and its corp...
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Hippos
This richly illustrated book consists of over 40 short essays on diverse topics such as the practices for naming of Athenian horses, their appearance on the city's coinage, the make-up of a chariot, the advice of the Athenian cavalry commander Xenophon, the cavalry inspection, and the possible ap...
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The Architecture of the Classical Temple of Hera
This volume is the first in a series providing detailed and up-to-date analyses of excavations and fieldwork conducted over more than a century at the Argive Heraion, site of a succession of religious buildings high above the plain of Argos.
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Vrysaki (Greek language edition)
Central Athens was transformed by the expropriation and demolition in the 1930s of the Vrysaki neighbourhood at the foot of the Acropolis, to facilitate the excavation of the ancient Agora. This book details the expropriations, as well as the history of the neighbourhood, providing a vivid recrea...
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A History of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
A chronicle of the second 50 years in the life of the American School (originally founded in 1881). Conceived as a companion volume to Louis Lord's 1947 history of the first 50 years, it outlines the activities of the School both in Greece and in the USA, beginning with an absorbing account of th...
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Exploring Greek Manuscripts in the Gennadius Library (English)
Among the collections of the Gennadius Library in Athens are over 300 Greek manuscripts, ranging in date from the 13th to the 19th century. This book presents a collection of studies of various aspects of the collection written by leading paleographers, Byzantine art historians, and theologians.
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Lerna in the Argolid
Situated on the shores of the Argolic Gulf, only a few miles away from the much later prehistoric sites of Mycenae, Tiryns, and Midea, Lerna is one of the key building blocks in our understanding of Greek archaeology. This guide to Lerna is illustrated with many plans and black and white photos.
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A LM IA Ceramic Kiln in South-Central Crete
This volume presents an in-depth study of the Late Minoan IA cross-draft kiln found in excavations at Kommos, Crete. The kiln is of a type popular during the Neopalatial period, and its good state of preservation has allowed the authors to speculate about its original internal layout and use, as ...
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The Athenian Citizen (text in modern Greek)
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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The Sanctuary of Athena at Sounion
This book provides a fascinating examination of the early excavations at Sounion, the debate over who was worshipped at the so-called Small Temple within the sanctuary, the varied architectural influences on the Temple of Athena, and the later use of its architectural pieces in the Athenian Agora.
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The Derveni Krater
This beautifully illustrated book represents the first full publication of the most elaborate metal vessel from the ancient world yet discovered. Found in an undisturbed Macedonian tomb of the late 4th century B.C., the volute krater is a tour de force of highly sophisticated methods of bronze wo...
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The Early Bronze Age Village on Tsoungiza Hill
This important study integrates the presentation and analysis of the archaeological evidence from a single settlement that flourished on Tsoungiza Hill in the Nemea Valley from the Final Neolithic until the end of the Early Helladic period.
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Histories of Peirene
The author deftly describes the evolution of the Fountain of Peirene framed against the underlying landscape and its ancient, medieval, and modern settlement, viewed from the perspective of Corinthian culture and spheres of interaction.
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Garden Lore of Ancient Athens
This booklet presents evidence for ancient horticulture in the Agora (for example, structured antique gardens were uncovered around the Temple of Hephaistos). Its colour plates also provide a useful guide to identifying modern Greek vegetation.
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Between Venice and Istanbul
The 13 papers in this volume survey the different regions of Greece from an archaeological as well as a documentary perspective, attempting to reveal common themes in the development of landscapes and sites between 1500 and 1800.
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The Art of Bookbinding
In conjunction with the Seventh International Forum on the Art of Bookbinding, organized in November 2002 by the international association Les Amis de la Reliure d'Art (ARA), the Gennadius Library organized an exhibition of rare bindings from its extensive collection, curated by well-known bookbi...
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The South Stoa and Its Roman Successors
After a discussion of the fragmentary evidence for several buildings of the Greek period which were swept to construct it, the South Stoa at Corinth is treated in detail. Description of all the remains, both those in situ and reused blocks, forms the basis of the reconstruction of this extensive ...
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Greek Architectural Terracottas of the Classical and Hellenistic Periods, December 12-15, 1991
Papers from the International Conference on Classical and Hellenistic Architectural Terracottas, held in 1991. The majority of the papers concentrate on architectural terracottas from the Greek mainland, with additional examples from sites on the Aegean islands, Asia Minor, present-day Albania, S...
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Homer at the Gennadius Library
Diplomat and bibliophile Joannes Gennadius donated his personal library, including some 6,000 editions of Classical Greek authors, to the American School of Classical Studies. This book showcases 39 treasures from this collection, reconstructing the Homeric universe from Gennadius's perspective a...
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Votive Reliefs
This volume includes all of the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman votive reliefs found to date in the excavations of the Athenian Agora. In addition to providing a catalogue of the reliefs arranged according to their subjects, the author treats the history of their discovery, production, workmans...
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