American School of Classical Studies at Athens

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Founded in 1881, The American School of Classical Studies at Athens provides graduate students and scholars from some 168 affiliated North American colleges and universities a base for research and study in the history and monuments of Hellenic civilization.

First and foremost, the School is a teaching institution, introducing North American graduate students to the sites and monuments of Greek civilization from antiquity to the recent past.

Thanks to its superb libraries - the Blegen, devoted to classical studies, and the Gennadeion, devoted to post-antique Greece - the School also attracts an international array of scholars, who consider these combined libraries one of the world's great resources for the study of Hellenism.

Since its earliest years, the School has also sponsored archaeological exploration. In 1896, it began digging at ancient Corinth, and today, over 100 years later, the excavation continues, providing a training ground for new generations of North American archaeologists and a constant flow of information about Greece's past. In 1931, the School opened a second great site in Athens itself: the Agora, the ancient city's commercial and political center. Thanks to the generosity of generations of benefactors, the School built museums and research centers at both sites, and has produced a rich array of publications documenting their finds.

Many of today's college and university professors in the classics and related fields have attended the School in one of its academic programs or excavations. Thanks to the School, these men and women have come to know Greece itself, and have touched the source of one of the world's great cultures, an experience which has enriched their teaching and given new dimension to their scholarship.

To support its teaching programs, libraries, excavations, research centers, and publications, the School depends almost entirely on private philanthropy. These generous donors facilitate the work of one of North America's foremost institutions devoted to study and research in the humanities.

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