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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Exploring Greek Manuscripts in the Gennadius Library (Greek language edition)
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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Horses and Horsemanship in the Athenian Agora
This concise and beautifully illustrated book demonstrates the many roles played by the horse in the lives of the Greeks, from its place in myth and early history to its significance as a marker of social status and its use in warfare, transportation, games, and festivals.
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Graffiti in the Athenian Agora
Like fragments of overheard conversations, the thousands of informal inscriptions scratched and painted on potsherds, tiles, and other objects give us a unique insight into the everyday life of the Athenian Agora. The author suggests why these scraps of sentences were written, and what they tell ...
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The City Eleusinion
An archaeological study of the City Eleusinion in Athens, the sanctuary of Eleusinian Demeter and the city terminus for the annual Eleusinian Mysteries.
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Archaeologies of Cult
Intended as a tribute to a pioneer in the field of Cretan cult study, 28 of Geraldine Gesell's former students and colleagues present aspects of ritual and religion on Crete.
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The Marble Statuettes of the Roman Period
This volume presents, for the first time, the marble statuettes and statuette fragments, carved between the 1st century BCE and the 4th century CE, that have been excavated from the Athenian Agora since 1931.
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Inscriptions from the Athenian Agora
Many types of written records are found in the Agora, and this booklet presents a sample of the more than 10,000 inventoried inscriptions written on stone. The texts illustrated include diplomatic agreements, commemorative plaques for athletic victories, records of court judgement and boundary st...
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The Sanctuary of Athena Nike in Athens
Based on records from Nikolaos Balanos' dismantling and reerection of the temple of Athena Nike on the Athenian Acropolis (between 1935 and 1939), this volume presents a detailed architectural study of the building's chronology and history.
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The Historical Greek Village
This volume presents the Protogeometric through Hellenistic material (ca. 970-175 B.C.) from ASCSA excavations conducted in the 1950s at Lerna in the Argolid, one of the most important prehistoric sites in Greece.
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Amphora Stamps from Thasos
This volume presents the Thasian amphora stamps of the Agora collection, contextualized in a broader discussion of their interpretation and chronology.
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The People
The second volume of the publication of the excavations at Lerna deals with the human bones that were found and gives a physical anthropological study of them.
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Miniature Sculpture from the Athenian Agora
Small sculptured figures of humans and animals have been found all over the Agora, ranging in date from the earliest occupation of Athens to the end of the Late Roman period. This booklet presents a representative sample of these carvings, ranging from elegant ivory figures of Apollo to small toy...
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Kallias of Sphettos and the Revolt of Athens in 286 B.C.
The long honorary decree for Kallias of Sphettos, found in the excavations of the Athenian Agora in 1971, is here published for the first time, illustrated with general and detailed photographs, with a translation and line-by-line commentary.
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The Athenian Grain-Tax Law of 374/3 B.C.
The first publication of a complex and well-preserved Athenian law of great interest to historians. In addition to the complete text and translation, the author provides commentary on the document, which contributes significant new information on the history, law, economy, topography, and public ...
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Potters at Work in Ancient Corinth
An unparalleled assemblage of Archaic black-figure painted pinakes (plaques) was uncovered near Penteskouphia, a village west of ancient Corinth, over a century ago. In this volume the findspot of the pinakes is identified and the assemblage as a whole is fully contextualized within the Archaic w...
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The Red-Figure Pottery
Inferior clays and glazes, unsuited to the red-figure style, means that the indigenous production of red-figure vases in Corinth was very limited. However for about 75 years, in the middle of the 5th century B.C., Corinthian potters tried to imitate the Athenian fashion and this book catalogues 1...
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Theoroi and Initiates in Samothrace
As one of the most famous religious centres in the Aegean, the island of Samothrace was visited by thousands of worshippers between the 7th century B.C. and the 4th century A.D. This book presents all known inscriptions listing or mentioning Samothracian initiates and theoroi (a total of 169 texts).
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Mediaeval and Modern Coins in the Athenian Agora
This booklet presents Byzantine, Frankish, Venetian, Turkish, and modern Greek coins, with many pieces illustrated with clear black and white photos of both obverse and reverse.
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The Great Bath on the Lechaion Road
The large Roman bath situated on the Lechaion Road must have been conspicuous in the architecture of ancient Corinth at the beginning of the third century A.D. and for several centuries afterward. The author relates the history of the site and its excavation.
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The Athenian Agora A Short Guide to the Excavations
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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The Molyvoti, Thrace, Archaeological Project 1
Hesperia Supplement vol. 54 This volume is the first in a four-part series presenting the final results of the Molyvoti, Thrace, Archaeological Project (MTAP), a Greek-American synergasia project in northern Greece. The project is centered on a site often referred to as "Ancient Stryme," which an...
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The Games at Athens
This attractive book presents a general introduction to the Greater Panathenaia, the week-long religious and civic festival held at Athens every four years in honour of the city's patron goddess, Athena.
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One Hundred Years of American Archaeological Work on Crete
Published in conjunction with the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete to accompany the "Crete 2000" conference (July 10–12, 2000), this album contains archaeological and historical photographs of all of the archaeological sites investigated by American scholars on Crete.
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Agora Excavations, 1931-2006
A pictorial history of the archaeological work in the Athenian Agora, the civic centre of classical Athens, illustrated with many archival photographs and primary documents. It focuses on some key moments in the Agora's history including the reconstruction of the Stoa of Attalos and the restorati...
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Bridge of the Untiring Sea
Pindar's metaphor of the Isthmus as a bridge spanning two seas encapsulates the essence of the place and gives a fitting title for this volume of 17 essays on the history and archaeology of the area. The Isthmus, best known for the panhellenic Sanctuary of Poseidon, attracted travelers both befor...
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Ancient Portraits from the Athenian Agora
Although the famous bronze statues seen by the Roman tourist Pausanias have been melted down, the Agora preserves a number of fine portraits in stone. While a few of these are named, most of the portraits in this booklet represent ordinary men and women; priests, athletes, and officials.
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Marcus Aurelius
An important inscription, found in the Roman market place in Athens, is here published for the first time. Although fragmentary, it preserves the text of a formal letter from Marcus Aurelius directed to the Athenians in the year A.D. 174/5.
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Corinth, the Centenary
Twenty-five papers presented at a 1996 symposium on the excavations at ancient Corinth. The papers are intended to illustrate the range in subject matter of research currently being undertaken by scholars of ancient Corinth.
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The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project
This volume represents the product of 25 years of study conducted by the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, a multidisciplinary, diachronic archaeological expedition formally organized in 1990 to investigate the history of prehistoric and historic settlement in western Messenia in Greece.
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Dogs in the Athenian Agora
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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The Southeast Building, the Twin Basilicas, the Mosaic House
This volume discusses the important, mainly Roman, buildings at the east end of the Corinthian Agora; the Julian Basilica and the Southeast Building, the South Basilica (immediately behind the South Stoa), and the Mosaic House adjoining it.
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The Modern Greek Resources Project
Greek bibliographic resources have generally been difficult to access in North America. This volume presents revised versions of papers first given at a meeting held in December 2006 that explored the possibility of effective transnational cooperation between libraries in Greece and in North Amer...
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The Neolithic Pottery from Lerna
Beneath the famous remains of the House of the Tiles and the other Bronze Age remains found at Lerna, a large amount of Neolithic pottery was found during 1950s excavations. This book, by placing the ceramic material in archaeological context, makes a number of important new claims about Lerna's ...
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54 Souidias
Founded in 1881, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens is the oldest American overseas research institute. This book traces the growth of this academic facility, which sponsors the long-term excavations of ancient Corinth and the Athenian Agora as well as one of the most important la...
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The Greek Tile Works at Corinth
A series of kilns at ancient Corinth known as the Tile Works are given final publication in this awaited book, based on excavations conducted in 1939 and 1940. The book describes the kilns and their products, with a discussion of fabrics and techniques of manufacture, moving on to typology and da...
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The Mycenaean Feast
This collection of essays investigates the rich evidence for the character of the Mycenaean feast. While much of the evidence discussed comes from the Palace of Nestor near Pylos, the authors also present new material from Tsoungiza near Nemea, and from other Bronze Age sites on mainland Greece a...
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The Free and the Brave
This bilingual catalog (in English and Greek) accompanied an exhibition organized by the Gennadius Library on the occasion of the bicentenary of the Greek Revolution of 1821 to explore the relations and connections between Greece and the United States from the American Revolution of 1776 to the C...
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Topography and Architecture
This volume provides the fullest possible picture of the temenos of Poseidon in Greek and Roman times, including the closely related stadia and the sanctuary of Palaimon and several monuments excavated to the west of the sanctuary: the Sacred Glen, the West Foundation, and the Hippodrome.
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Mapping Mediterranean Lands
This special issue of the Gennadius Library's periodical, The New Griffon, presents six essays about the Library's map collection and its place in a larger project to bring together, in a digital repository, maps and charts of the Mediterranean held in American overseas research centers. The text...
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Birds of the Athenian Agora
As well as the Little Owl or glaux, so often seen accompanying the goddess Athena, many other birds played an important role in Greek art and symbolism. This booklet describes the ways in which the Greeks viewed birds, from useful hawks and fowl to exotic parakeets and peacocks.
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Early Burials from the Agora Cemeteries
Before the creation of the Agora as a civic centre in the 7th century B.C., the region northwest of the Acropolis was a vast cemetery. Over 150 ancient burial places have been found by excavators, and a few of the more remarkable are described here.
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Lamps from the Athenian Agora
At night, the darkness of the ancient Agora would have been pierced by the lights of oil lamps, and thousands of fragments of these distinctive objects have been found. This booklet presents the development of different styles of lamps and includes a very useful identification guide.
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The Church of the Holy Apostles
The Church of the Holy Apostles stands at an important crossroads in the southeast corner of the area of the ancient Agora. This book considers its design in relation to other churches in Greece, and describes the restoration. It includes photos of the structure before, during and after restorati...
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Excavations at Pylos in Elis
When the site of Elean Pylos was threatened by the construction of a dam in 1968, a team from the University of Colorado moved in to salvage as much information as possible about the ancient town before it was submerged. This report is divided chronologically: Middle Helladic, Geometric, Archaic,...
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