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/PRNewswire/ -- On Thursday, October 7, 2021, the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens will host the inaugural Thalia...

PRINCETON, N.J., Oct. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- On Thursday, October 7, 2021, the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens will host the inaugural Thalia Potamianos

ATHENS -- Bestselling author and Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research Peter Frankopan will deepen and nuance our understanding of the relationship between ancient Greece and the wider world in an upcoming livestreamed talk, the first in a series of three - The National Herald

Culture Minister Lina Mendoni also sent condolences for his death. The American archaeologist was the “soul” of Ancient Nemea

Stephen Miller, the American archaeologist who excavated Nemea has died. Credit: Greek ReporterFollowing five decades of research and excavations, archaeologist Stephen G. Miller leaves behind a legacy to Greece and the world of the Nemean Games. Professor Miller died early Wednesday morning following a hemodialysis procedure.  He was 79 years old. Recently, his all too…

A scholar of ancient Greece explains what the modern Olympics have in common with the original women running on track field As a scholar of ancient Greek literature, I find myself looking at the Olympics every four years not for the idealized spectacle, but as the complex, confounding cultural phenomenon that they always have been. The modern Olympics have shared positive and negative aspects with their ancient Greek models since the legendary founding of the games at Olympia ...

John Wesley Gilbert: The First African-American Archaeologist Was Fascinated with Athens John Wesley Gilbert. Credit: Public Domain John Wesley Gilbert was a groundbreaking figure in the fields of Classics and Archaeology. During his lifetime, Gilbert, the son of slaves, became a renowned scholar and the first Black person to receive an advanced degree from Brown University. The scholar, who was an accomplished linguist, classicist, and archaeology, broke countless barriers in his life, making ...

A fieldwork experience, no travel required During a two-week in-person bootcamp at the Penn Museum, 11 undergrads learned basic archaeological skills in subjects from ceramics and sample-taking to archaeobotany. During the archaeobotany lesson led by Chantel White (not pictured) of the Penn Museum’s Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials—part of a two-week archaeology bootcamp—students including (from left to ri...

In the launch of his weekly column, The Parthenon Report, Don Morgan Neilsen shares a personal retrospective of his connection with the Greek culture and the Parthenon.

Ancient Greek theater of Messene in the Peloponnese. Credit: AMNAThe ancient Greek theaters at Messene and Sicyon in the Peloponnese were centers for drama and culture in both ancient times and during the Roman period of Greek history.The ancient Greek theater at Sicyon (present-day Kiato) was built between 303 and 251 BC, but was renovated…