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Gennadius Library Renovations Set to Begin

The 1ong-awaited renovations to the Renovations will also include the instal­ and a Γ c hit ec tur a l ax ial appωac h , and to Gennadius Library are slated to begin this lation of an entiΓe l y new HVAC system to ιnake use of nati ve evergreen plants." fall , culminating six years of planning combat the effects of heat, dnst, and polln­ Τη 1970, the LibΓaΓy experienced its first and fundΓai s in g. PΓesent plans call fο Γ the tion on the Libι-aι-y 's collections. In addi­ major expansion. On advice fωιη Francis Gennadeion to close for appωx im ate l y tion, the Library wi ll be getting new duct R. Walton, who diΓected the LibΓaιγ from six months. woΓk, wiring, and pluιnbing , while the roof 1961 to 1976, the Trustees had approved a The project is in the hands of the Athe­ and all windows and doors wi ll be repaired new addition in 1963, when and if funds ni an architectural fiπn of Ioanni s Yikellas ΟΓ rep1aced for ιnοΓe effective c liιn ate con­ became available. By 1970, work began and Associates, chosen for th e iΓ ex p e ι-ιi se tωl. The refιιΓbi sh n1 e nt wi11 not a1ter the ιιηd e Γ a Γc hitec t Paul My1onas, and in 1972, and accompli shment in hi storica1 renova­ a ppeaΓan ce of the bιιilding inside Ο Γ out, re­ the Tιυstees dedi cated the buildings, which tion in Athens and elsewhere. The focus of specting its status as an histoΓic monιιment. co nψΓi sed an east wing, used fοΓ stacks and the work will be the Main Building, bui1t Ιη the yeaΓ S since the LibraΓy opened in offices, and a west wing. The west wing by the American architectural fiπn of Van 1926, it has ιιnd e rgone seveΓa l Γenovations. eventuall y included the Stathatos Room, Pelt & Thompson between 1922 and 1926. It was Γe p a inted in 1954, and at the same n a ιn ed for Mιne. Helene Stathatos, who PeΓh a p s the ιno st Γadical and difficult t iιne, Ralph GΓi swo ld , landscape aΓc hit ect donated the Macedonian caιΎe d wood p o ι-tion of the plans recommended by of the Athenian AgoΓa, tuΓn ed hi s attention panels lining the wall s as well as the woΓks Mr. Yikellas in volves digging a subbase­ to Γesto rin g the gaΓde n , which had suffered of art; and the Basil Exhibition Room, ment under the Main Reading Roon1, which during the yeaΓs of WoΓ i d Wa ι· ΙΙ and after. naιned after the donor, Frank Basil. The will inαea se stack space and pωvide a The gaΓd en's basic plan was Γev i sed, as west wing's two subterranean levels of ωοm to be fitted out fοΓ on-site book­ Lιιcy Shoe MeΓitt wΓote in h e Γ hi stoΓy of stacks, funded by theAmerican Schools and binding and repair. the School, ''to give a more monumental Hospitals Abωad pω gram of the Agency fοΓ Int e ιηation a l Development, were com­ pleted in 1989. The current efforts began in 1992, when the Trustees ofthe School, ιιnd er th e leader­ ship of then Preside nt Hunter Lewis, fo Γm ed an Ad Hoc Gennadius Library Committee, with Trustee Ladis1aus Yon Hoffω a nn as Chairman. In 1994, Nicho1as Barker, forωer Associate Keeper of the British Libr a1γ in London who served as a consultant to the Committee, presented a survey of the LibraΓy's needs. It identified as the highest priority the necessity of getting "the bnilding as it is in O Γd e r." Το meet the chall enge, the Comωittee hiι- ed Mic hael GΓav es Architects of PΓin ceto n , known fο Γ work on a variety of public bui1dings, including n1u se nω s and libΓaΓ i es . Graves's task was to s uιΎey the stω c tuΓe, to assess the c liω a t e control sys­ tems, to review sec ιιΓit y issues, and to ex­ plore possibilities for reorgani zation of space and expansion. With the assistance of John L. Altieri , whose finn specializes in HVAC Seventy-two ) ' eaι·s ago: Sl1.epl1.ad ίnfιΌnt ojtl1e Gennadίιιs LίbΓα ΙJ', s-tanclίng ση ιπecle cesso ι · of syste ω s, and Joannou & Paraskevaides, Ltd., Sοιι ίdίαs Street, ca. 1926. Pl?oto coιι n e sΎ ofth.e ASCSA ΑΓchί ι ιes. contίnι ι ed ση page 19

Pu blished by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens B Akoue! ~ Library Board Adds New Member

The Board ofTrustees ofthe Gennadius the Ergo-Exchange and th e Panhell enic L i braΓy has elected Elias Μ . Stassinoponl os, Association of Wood Iιηp ort e r s, a11d is on Vice PΓe s i d e n t ofthe Superv isory Board of the Boards of DiΓec tor s of the Federation the Athe 11 s Stock Excha11 ge, to join th e iΓ of GΓeek I n du s tΓi es a 11 d the A the ns ranks. Born in Athens, Μ Γ . Stassinopoul os ChambeΓ of ComιηeΓce a11d Industry. g Γ adu ate d fωm Athens Coll ege and went Mr. Stassinopoulos lives in Athens with 0 11 to ι- ece i ve a11 Μ . Β . Α . in eco 11 omi cs from his wife a11 d their two children, both of Sheffield U ni ve Γs i ty in England. whom are now studying at U.S. uni versi­ Mr. Stassino poulos a lso serves as ties. In addi ti on to coll ecti 11 g books a 11 d C h ai πη a n of the Board of Directors of pain tings of Greece, he is a 11 avid trave l eΓ Ergoin vest, S.A. and is C h a iπηa 11 of the to destinations "k11ow n for their tradition family's M .S. Stassinopoulos Co., a broad­ a11d c ultuΓe. " based co ιηp a n y with interests i11 i ndιι s tι · y , With the addition οfΜΓ . Stassinopoulos, co mm eΓce , and the import/export busi11 ess. the Board of the Ge11n adius Library 11 ow In additio 11 , he is Vice C h a iπη a n of both numbe Γs eleven. El ίas Μ . Sιas s ίnopo u.l o s

School Colleagues Win ΑΙΑ Awards for Scientific Co 11tιibuti o n s to Archaeology went to M a Γtin J. Aj tken, retired Professor CaΓO I C. Mattusch (ASCSA 1971-74, was cited as "a fundamental Γeexa nιin a ti o n of Archaeometry and Deputy Director of 1975- 76), Professor in the Art Hi story and of the co11 cepts of Ό ri g in a l ' versus 'copy' the Research Laboratory for Archaeology Hi story Departme11ts of George Mason in ancient sculpture a 11 d of evidence fo r the and the Hi story of Art, Oxford Uni versity. U ni ve Γ s it y , a ιη e mb er of the School 's Man­ di vision of labor between sc ulpt oι-s ' a11d In hi s acceptance, Γead by Α ΙΑ PΓe s id e nt aging Co mJnίttee and C h a iΓ of its Comnιi t ­ fo un deΓ s' wo Γk s h o p s . " Stephen L. Dyson, ΜΓ . Aitke11 Γeme ιηbe red tee 0 11 Publicati ons, received the ni11 th Also at the An11u al Meeti11 g, School hi s associati on with the ASCSA whil e an11u al James R. Wiseman Book Aw a Γd of Managing Commjttee M e mbe ι- J effΓey S. worki11 g 0 11 a magnetic study of G Γeek and the A Γc h aeo l og i cal Institute of A nΊ e Γi ca for Soles (ASCSA 1970- 73), Uni versity of Aegea11 po tt e ιγ: " .. . the prese11t occasion h e Γ work Classical Bronzes: τl1 e Art and No ι"th CaΓO li11 a at Greensboro, and Scott freshens in my nιind the much-appreciated Craft oj" Greek and Ron1an Stalιι ary, pub­ Pike (ASCSA 1993- 95, W i e 11 e Γ Laboratory help that Ι Γece i ve d from scholars of the lished by Corn ell Uni versity Press, lthaca, Acting Director 1995- 97), U ni νe Γ si t y of A m e Γi ca n School of Classical Studies at 1996. The award, given annually to the pub­ Georgia, were awarded jointly the AIA's Athens .... Besides hj ghlighting the m e Γit licati on deemed most worthy of ι- ecog ni­ first annual Best Poster Award for their pre­ of neighborl y coo p e Γa ti o n -th e Ameri can tion by the Institute, was presented at the sentati on entitl ed ' Ά Petrographic Charac­ School being but a stone's throw from the AIA's 99th Annual Meeting i11 Chi cago on teri zati on Study of Bronze Age Sandstone British one-this study also illustrated Dece m be ι · 29, 1997. Qu a ιτi es i11 East CΓe te and Its Applicati on the mutual value of interdi scipli11ary work." The volume on classical bro 11 zes is p a Γ t to Minoan Archaeology." The p oste Γ was of Ms. Mattusch's ongoing research that judged first out of ni11 eteen presented at AMERICAN SCHOOL OF began with excavation of b ΓO n ze-workin g the meeting. CLASSICAL STUDIES ΑΤ ATHENS areas in the Atheni an A go Γ a a11d Co Γinth . It The I11 stitute's 1997 Po ιη e r a n ce AwaΓd 54 Souidias St. , GR-l06 76 Athens, Greece

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NEWSLEΠER Summer 1998 Νο . 4\ Executive Editor Catherine deG. Vanderpool Editorial Assistant Mary Ε . Darlington

Edί ting and Design: Nancy Μ . Wolfe, EnandEm Graphics, Inc. The Newsletter is published semi-an nually by the ASCSA under the inspiration of Doreen C. Spitzer, Trustee Emeriιa. Please address all coπes pondenc e and inquiή es to the Newsletter Editor, ASCSA U.S. Office, 6-8 Charlton Steet, Pήn ce t o n , NJ 08540- 5232. Phone(609) 683-0800;Fax(609)924- 0578; Website: www.ascsa.org; E-mail: Caω / C. Maιtιι s c /1 ( / efι) αηι/ Sc otι Pί k e w ί t /1 Α/Α FiΓs t Vί ce P Γes ί ι/e nt and ASCSA Managing ascsa@ ascsa.org. Co nυ11 ί ttee M e ι nb e ι ; Nancy C. Wί l k ί e . Ph.oto co urι esy oj"A IA 2 Gennadeion's Lear Watercolors at Goulandris Museum On May 14, the Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens and the Gennadiιιs Libι-ary inauguι-ated the exhibition, 'Έdward Lear in Greece," with Μι-s. Dolly GoulandΙis hosting the event and Evangelos Venizelos, Minister of Cιιlture, cιιtt in g the ribbon. Also pι-esent was R. Nicholas Burns, U.S. Ambassador to Greece. The exhibit's bilingual catalogue was wι · itt en by art hi s toι-ian Fani-Marie Tsigakou, Curator of Pι-int s and Drawings at the Benaki Mu­ seum, who also directed the install ation in the Goulandris Museum's extension in the neoclassical Stathatos Mansion. Undeι-­ written by Philip Morris Hellas, the exhi­ bition continued at the Goulandris Museum thωιι g h the end of Aιιgust. The woι-ks fοι- the exhibit were chosen from the Gennadius Library's 202 Lear drawings, 188 of which were acquired in 1929 when an estate coll ection was offeι-ed to Joannes Gennadius, who persuaded the View of Ch οι-οeρίscορί in Cο ι jίι, 1856, by Ec/ward Lea ι : Pencil, Pen anci Watacolor ση Ραρeι: School to purchase them for the nominal Th.e Gennadiιιs Lίbrary. Ρ/ιοι ο : Anc/ι-eas Skίadaι·es ίs sum of f25. The remaining foιιι-te e n dι·aw­ ings were added in 1940 by then Library become known as a painter of Gι-eece ." record of mid-nineteenth century Greece. Director Shirley Η . Weber. The exhibition compι · i ses eighty of The Leaι· col lection, first mounted in Βοιη near London in 1812, Edward Lea ι· Lear's watercoloι-s of the GΓeek countΙΎ­ Thessaloniki in 1997, the year Greece's began his ca ι· eeι- as a natιιral history side painted between 1848 and 1864, a second city was Cultιιι-al Capital of illustrator in eaι- ly adolescence and by the peι · iod duι-ing which he visited Greece E uωp e , will be exhibited ίη Octobeι- and age of twenty he had published hi s twelfth many times. LeaΓ was ιιnίqιι e among aΓt­ November of 1999 at the Princeton book on paπots . In 1832 he was invited to ist-travelers of the day tΌΓ hi s faithful ren­ Univeι-sity ΑΓt Mιιseun1. The traveling Κnowsley Hall near Liveφool to draw the d eι- ing of a landscape, ι-ecordin g only the exhibition is paι-t of the School's ongoing private menagerie of British natuι-ali s t , scene that was befoι-e him. This appωacl1 effoι-ts to Γai s e awaι-eness of the Library in Lord Stanl ey. It was there that Lear began Γepι-e se nted a di stinct d e paι· tιιι-e from the tl1e U.S. Thωugh the continuing steward­ to develop an inteι-est in landscape paint­ VictoΓians ' penchant fοΓ e ιηbelli s hing ι-e­ ship σf the ASCSA, the Gennadeion is ing. In Apι-i l 1848, he embaι-ked on hi s fiι-st ality by adding classical ιυίη s to their paint­ today both a national tι-ea s uΓe and an trip to Greece, the start of an artistic affaiι­ ings. With 3,000 pictuι- es of the Gι-eek in1portant ce nteΓ fοΓ the s tιιdy of post­ that pi'Ompted hin1 to write lateι- , " Ι countryside attι-ibuted to him, LeaΓ ' s body aι1tique GΓeece. have the iιηpι-ession that eventually Ι wi ll of woΓk stands as an accurate and detailed

Gιι es ι cι ι. raιor Faιιi-Marίe Tsίgakoιι, w/10 dίre c t eci ι/ι e eχ /ι. ίbίtίοη 's iιτs-tallatίon ίη tl1e Anιong tlιe c/istίng ιιislι ec/ g ιι es ts at ι/ι e ίη α ιιgιιωtίοη of ''Ed Ιva ι rl Le aι· ίη Gι-e ece, "(left to ι-ί g lιι) tlι.e Mu.s e uιn 's ex ι en.5 ίon ίη tlι.e neoclass· ί ca l Honoι-able R. Nί clιo/as Βιιι-ηs , U.S. A ιnbassado ι · to Greece; Geoι·ge Cο ιιιηαηιαι-ο:;, Sοιιt/ιeπι Stαι­ Stat/ι. aιos Mansίon. S!ι. ίρρίηg Cοιnραιι) • ; and S ι e lίos Α . Ραραc/ίηιίtrίοιι, Pres ic/enι οjΊ/ι e Alexancleι- S. Onassι:s Fou.ndaιίon. 3 Mayer House Sold Following a decision by the Board of Trustees at their Noveιnber 1997 ιneeting, Mayer House, the U.S. base for School activities since 1974, was put on the mar­ ket and sold in May for $5,850,000. The buyer, a private individual, plans to restore the building to its Victorian splendor and has also purchased many of the fanιily fιιr­ nishings and art objects. Β uilt ca. 1870, the house, which had been in the Mayer family since 1899, was donated to the School by ClaΓa W. Mayer, Dean of the School of Philosophy and Liberal Aτts at the New School for Social Research in New York. Miss Mayer had her first acquaintance with the School in 1953, Alan L. Boege lωlcl (rίgl1t) ancl C!?aίrnωrι- e le c t, Step/1.en V. Tω cy. Pl1. oto: MaΓy DaΓiington when she was shown aωund by Eugene Vanderpool, who was introduced to her by Managing Committee News Eωerson Howland Swift, Meωber and then Alan L. Boegehold was honoι-ed for his dent of the Council of the Alumni Associa­ Fe11ow of the School in 1912- 15. On her eight yeaΓs of seΓvice and upcoming retire­ tion, a11 of whoω serve as ex offίcίo meω­ departιιre froιn Athens she offered ''to do ment as Chaiπnan of the Managing Coιn­ beΓs of tl1e Executive Committee of the anything to help the School on the other mittee at its Annual Meeting on May 9, held Managing Coιηιηittee . hemisphere," and, two decades later in at the Institute ofFine AΓts, New ΥοΓk Uni­ At the same meeting, the Managing 1974, she fulfilled her offer by giving her versity. Α ιηotion, passed by acclamation Committee created a new standing Com­ hοιηe to the School as a U.S. headquarters. and followed by a standing ovation, ex­ mittee οιι the WieneΓ LaboratoΓy , and Beginning in the late 1970s, the School pressed the Committee's "admiration and named ιηembers to a new Coιηωittee on used a poΓtion of the house as office and thanks for his leadership, wise guidance, the Blegen Libraτy, which was forωed at meeting space while renting the reιηaining and tiΓeless administΓation-tΌΓ all that he the DecembeΓ 1997 ιηeeting . Elected to the rooms to as many as four different organi­ has helped and done, and especially for the Library comnuttee were Sarah Ρ. Moπis zations and individuals. While initially the easy grace, even humor, and good sense (University of Ca1ifoι-πia at Los Angeles), Trustees and Managing Committee consid­ which he exeΓcised fοΓ the benefit of the Chairωan , and FredeΓick Α. Cooper (Uni­ eΓed ωoving the Publications Office to New American School of Classical Studies at veΓsity of Minnesota). Also seΓv ing on the ΥοΓk so that a11 the School's U.S.-based Athens." The occasion was celebrated with Library comιηittee as appointees are Claire operations would be under one roof, this a luncheon in the Institute's Marble Room Lyons (τhe Getty ReseaΓch Institute) and never ιnateria1ized due to the difficulty and following the formal meeting. Linda Jones Roccos (τhe College of Staten expense of relocating the staff. lnstead, the Is1and, City University of New York). adιηinistrative office ωoved to New Jersey, *** Blegen Librarian Nancy Α. Winter and and in 1996, when Publications had to leave At the May ωeeting , the Managing School Director J a ωes D. Muhly will seΓve its longtiωe home at the Institute for Ad­ Committee confirmed the following School as ex offίcίo ωembers . vanced Study in Princeton, the two staffs appointments: Haris Ka11igas as Director The newly appωved standing Cornnιit­ moved to the cuπent location on Charlton of the Gennadius LibraΓy and Nancy Α. tee ο η the Wiener Labortory wiH be chaired Street in Princeton. Winter as Head LibΓaΓian of the Blegen by Nancy C. Wilkie (Carleton College), with After the adιninistrative staff left, its Library for 1998-2001 ; and for 1999-2002, ωeιηbeΓs Eugene Ν . .βοΓza (Emaίtus, Penn­ office in Mayer House was rented out, with Robert Α. Bridges, Jr. , as Secretary of the sylvania State Uni ersity), Jane Buikstra the School using only veΓy liιnited space School and Merle Κ. Langdon (University (University of New Mexico), Williaω R. for meetings. By 1997, the boom in the ofWashington) as Andrew W. Mellon Pro­ Faιτand (ExhibitMuseunιofNatural HistoΓy , New York Γeal estate market, combined fessor of Classical Studies. J.A.S. Evans UniveΓsityofMichigan), andJulieM. Hansen with the pωbleιns of administering the (University ofBritish Coluωbia) and Mary (Boston Univeι·sity). As Managing Coιηnιit­ property as an absentee 1andlord, led C. Sturgeon (University ofNonh Caωlina, tee Chairman, Stephen V. TΓacy will be serv­ the Trυstees to decide with great regret that Chapel Hill) were named Elizabeth Α. ing as an ex offic ίo ιneωbeΓ. it was in the best inteΓests of the School to Whitehead Visiting Professors fοι- 1998- John Ε. Fischer, Chairιηaι1 of the se11 the property. The sale of the house was 1999, and Jenny Strauss Clay (UniveΓsity Coιηωittee on Coιηωittees, announced handled by The Corcoran Group, one of of Virginia) and Caωl Lawton (Lawrence the election of officers and new meιηbeΓs New YoΓk's best-known real estate agen­ University) fοΓ 1999-2000. to the following Con1nιittees: Executive cies dealing in high-end propeΓties , and was Chairωan-elect Stephen V. Tracy (Ohio Coιnrnittee , Daniel J. Pullen (Fiorida State concluded within four months of going on State University) announced the appoint­ University) and Ann Steiner (Franklin & the maΓket. ments of Stella Miller-Collett (Bryn Mawr Marshall College, representing the CentΓal The School is exploήng ways to comιneω­ Co11ege) as Vice Chairωan, and Carla Μ. Pennsylvania Consoniunι); Adιnissions orate appωpriately Claι·a MayeΓ's geneωs­ Antonaccio (Wesleyan University) as and Fellowships, Carolyn Higbie (Harvard ity. The net pωceed s afteΓ coιnmission and Secretary, and the election of Naomi J. University) and Mark Η . Munn (Peπ n sy l- other expenses are $5.5 million, which Norman (University of Georgia) as Presi- conι inιι ed on page /6 cuιτently reside in unrestricted endowωent.

4 Viewing the '97 Season in Retrospect

The School owes α debt of gratitude to the Greek Ministry of Culture, under Minister Evangelos Venizelos, its Department of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, and to all the Ep i70 Γeίas of Antiquities for facilitating ίts excavations in 1997, described below by Jan1es D. Muhly, Director of the School. The summer of 1997 represented an­ other successfnl and prodιιcti ve season for scholars working on behalf of the ASCSA. Many ofthe field pωject s sponsored by the School are now having s tιι dy seasons, working towards tl1e appearance of that aU­ im po Γt a n t Γepon , b ιιt • final there was also a • fair amo ιι11 t of 11 ew fi e ld wo Γk , especiall y • i11 theAth e11 ian Agora and at Corinth. It has • not been possibl e to include al1 projects in • this rep o Γt. My apologies to those sc h o l aΓ s whose work had to be omitted. The Agora was the scene of a n ot h eΓ voi­ UI1 teeΓ t Γ ai ni11 g session, fωιη J ιι11 e 10 to A ιι gu s t l, u11d e Γ the d i Γectio l1 of Joh11 ΜcΚ. Camp ΙΙ . Those who were in Athe 11 s last s ιιmm er will Γememb e r this peri od as 011 e of i11tense heat, ceΓ t a i n l y the hottest pa Γt of the s ιιmιη e Γ , but that seemed to make little Grο ιφ oj" ~ v at e r ja ι·s fωηι Geo ιn e trίι· ~ve ll oj" ca. 800 Β . C., excavated ί η the Agora ίη 1997. di fference to the vo lιιn tee r s (or so they Plωto : Cω ίg Maιιzy claimed at the Gaι- d e 11 P a Γt y w he n it eleventh century B .C., a time that still mosaics from a Middle Roma11 house. This was all ονeΓ) , who 11ιι m b e r e d foΓ t y a11 d Γe m ain s the d aΓke s t period of the Γ ap i d l y house, now recog11i zed to be a ν e ιΎ l aΓge came from twenty-six Am e Γi ca l1 colleges disappeari11 g "Dark Age." bιιildi11 g , was probabl y destroyed ί11 the late a11d ιι11i ve r s i t i es . F r ο ιη the late AΓc h ai c period a deposit third century A.D. Work nonh of the E Γid a 11 os Ri ve Γ pro­ uncovered behind the Classical co mm e Γ­ At Isthmia, Timothy Ε. Gregory had a duced a g Γ aνe dated to ca. 1050 B.C., the ciaJ buildi11g was fo ιιnd to be full of ostΓaka study a11d research seaso11 from Ju11e 23 to earliest evidence to date for the human ιι se cast agai11 st Themistocles and Xanthippos. Au g ιι s t 2, on behalf of the Ohio State U11i­ of this area. Α well , dated to ca. 800 B .C., These ballots certainly come from the versity Excavati ons. WoΓk conce11trated 011 pωv i ded the eaτ lies t evidence fο Γ h ιιman fa m o ιι s o stracis m in 4 85/4 B .C . of the pΓe pa Γa tion of detailed d Γawin gs of the habitation of the aΓe a . The grave deposit is Xanthippos, fa th e Γ of PeΓi c l es (who was, Roιna 11 Bath excavated in pΓeν i o u s seasons a welcome Γe minde r that life (and death) of co ιιr se , recaJJ ed fω m ex il e in 480 B.C. as well as 011 the reconstructio11 ofthe glass co 11tinιι ed to go on i11 Athens even i11 the i11 o Γde r to help fight the Pe Γ s ia 11 s). and marble decoratio 11 of that bath. The At Corinth, two projects operated duΓ­ U 11i versity of Chicago E xcavatio 11 s at il1g 1997, o 11 e co n d ιι c t e d by the outgoing Isthmia, directed by Elizabeth R. Gebhard, director C h a Γi es Κ. Williams, ΙΙ , the other spe11t a study seaso11 (Jιι11 e l to Αιι g ιι s t 31 ) by the incomi11 g diτecto r Gιι y D.R. Sa11ders. reco 11 s id e Γi11 g interpretati o11 s published by ΜΓ . Williams completed his i11 vestigation Oscar Bro11eer. The Cyclopaea11 wall across of the F Γ a 11 k i s h cemetery, w h eΓe the recov­ the Isthmus 110w seems to be Classical, 11 ot ery of over 200 skeletons has 11 ow provided Myce11 aean. New study also suggests a re­ physical a 11th1Όp o l og i s t s with an extraor­ col1 structiol1 of the architectural sculptures din aΓy database for studyi11 g the qιι a li ty of fωm the Poseido11 Temple Γ a di c all y differ­ life at Corinth in th e twelfth , thi rteenth a11d el1t from that published i11 lsthmia Ι (1971). fo uΓtee l1th ce l1tu Γi es A.D. It has to be ad­ At Nemea, Stephe11 G. Miller, 011 behalf mitted that life at CoΓinth duri11g the Fral1k­ of the U11i versity of California at Berkeley, ish p e Γio d does 11 0t seem to have bee11 all directed work centered around the recol1 - that great, although many of those buried structi ol1 of the topography of the site. The at Corinth are probabl y to be see11 as pil­ present course ofthe Nemea River was cre­ g Γiιη s who fell ill while 011 their way to the ated by Fre11 ch e11 gineers in 188 1; i11 ancie11t Holy Land. Many of those who got no fιιΓ­ times it fl owed several meters to the west. ther than CoΓinth s u ffe Γe d from bιυ ce ll os i s The Ηe ω Shri11e of Opheltes (who 11 ever (Malta's disease), transmitted thω ιι g h goat­ s uΓvi ved childhood) seems 11 ot to be the milk p Γ o du c t s . a11 cie11t c ιιlt ce 11t e Γ it was formerl y take 11 to 111 the aΓea southeast of the Panayia be . What was thought to be a 11 atural C hιιr c h , M r. Sa 11d e Γ s excavated a L ate tumulus turns out to be a11 a Γtifi c i al mou11d -..- Roman bath , ι η ο s t li kely built i11 the fiΓ s t probabl y created at the time of the fou11d­ Ostraka of Xanth--.. ίpp o s jιΌnι. fίll b e lιίnd half of the sixth century A.D. WoΓk a]so i11 g of the Nemean Games ( tΓa diti o 11 al date ClaHical co ι nιn e rc ί al buίlclίn g ίη th.e Α gο πι.. co nti 11 ιι ed on the cleani11g and co11servati on 573 B.C.). Plωto : C ra ίg Mauzy (by Stella Bo ιι zaki ) of the fine geometric co nt ίn ι. ι ed on page 17

5 Gretchen MaxeineΓ MiiJis, w ife of Library News Regιιlaι- Membeι- Be11jami11 Millis, worked at the Library in 1997-98 processing book From the Blegen oΓders, entering new books, and supervisi11g volunteers. She holds a Β.Α . and a11 Μ . Α . Thanks to a gι-ant fΙΌm the AΓete Foun­ in Latin, the foπηer from Bryn Mawr Col­ dation of Philadelphia, the Blegen Libι-ary lege, the latter from the University of IJJi- has hiι-ed a new Library Assistant, Phyllis 11ois at UΓbana-Champaign, and is woΓk­ Gι-a h aιη . With an Μ.Α. in ancient a ι "t hi s­ ing on an M.S. in libΓary and infoι-mation tory and an M .L.S. with specializations in science at UΓbana-Champaign. book conversation and online e l ectΙΌ ni c *** ι- eso urces , Ms. Gι-aham wi ll und e ι- take a conservation assessιηent of the Blegen, in­ Blegen Libι-aΓian Nancy Α. Wi11ter and stituting linιited in-house book mending to Wieneι- Laboι-atory Assista11t DiΓectoΓ pι-olong the books' li ves. ln addition, she Vasilike AΓgyωpoulos completed a book­ will advise the Libι-aΓian on electroni c ι-e­ let of emergency procedures in the event so uι-ces appropriate to libΓaι-ie s such as the of fire, eaι-thquake, flood, a11d otheΓ Blegen and instruct users thωu g h pΓepara­ enΊeΓge n cies. When printed, it will be Tl1e Sixteent/1 Annuαl Walιon Le c tιι. ι ·e vι ι αs ti on of guidelines and o ιi e nt atio n s fοΓ new posted throughoιιt the bιιi ldin g and ρresented on Μαι·c /11 7 at the G e nnαcleίon by and cuπent databases (DYABOLA, NestoΓ, distΓibuted to all MeιηbeΓs and staff. The loli Kalαvrezo ιι , i1.eacl ojtl1. e Deρaι-rn1.ent of Fίne Gηοιηοη , etc.). booklet is based on a dΓaft Lib ι ·a ry Pre­ Αι · ιs of Har vαrcl Univeι-sity. Her /e c tιιι-e on tl1e GΓaham woΓked fοι- paΓedl1e ss Handbook developed by Ms. Ms. has many years ίnψeι-ίαl milί eι ι oj" Con~· tαntiπoρ/ e νvas eιι tίtled Winter with the Library Committee of the with the Nemea excavati ons, at Tel Qasile ''τl1e Lαngιιage oj" Ιι ηρeι-ίαl Byza ntίne Αι·t." Ame ι · i can Academy in R ο ιη e duΓing h e Γ in lsrael and at Rabat in MoΓocco . Most Ρ/ωtο: Μαι·ίe Μαιt Ζ)' Γe ce ntly , she woι-ked on conserving books time theι·e last yeaΓ as a Visiting Scholar. at the Mate n a daι- a n LibΓary and Mashtots *** passing the stιιdy of icons dating from the lnstitute of Ancient Manuscι-ipts at YeΓevan, sixth to fifteenth ce ntu Γies fΓΟιη through­ Anastasia (τessa) Di11smooΓ has donated Armenia. She li ved in Athe11s fωm 1988 oιιt the Byzantine world. As had been its to the Blegen Libraι-y her peΓso nal lib Γary , through 1992 whe11 h eΓ husba11d was posted goal, the Conference pΙΌvided an exciting whi ch includes ιηany books collected by at the American Embassy. opportunity to discuss woΓk in progΓess her late hιι sba nd , WilliaJη Β . Dίη s ιηοοΓ , JΓ ., fΙΌ ιη both a speciali st and 110n-specialist *** and l1i s fatheΓ . Most of the appΙΌx iιη ate l y peι·s pecti ve. 400 vo luιη es weΓe offered to Me mb e Γ s in a Two Blege11 Libι-a Γy Working Fellows *** were appointed this past yea~· to tackl e the book sale thi s sun1mer, to Γai se money fο Γ The Gennadiιιs LibΓaΓy held its third g row ί11 g backlog of entries for the Blegen's the Blegen. annual ceJebΓatiol1 of"Clea11 Monday," the topographical bibliography and the news­ ~ fiΓ s t day of Le11t, 011 March 2 in the garden paper clipping files on recent aΓchaeologi­ of the Libraι-y. The festivities i n c lιι ded tra­ caJ di scove Γie s . The 1997-98 Fellows, who From the Gennadeion ditίol1al Le11ten food and dΓink, and sing­ received a waiver of fees and meals i11 On Febω ary 20 and 21, the Ge nn ad iιι s ing and dancing with Domna Saιηίο ιι and Loring Hall, were Senior Associate Mem­ LibΓaΓy held an inteΓ nati o n a l confe rence, h eΓ mιιsician s. This yeaι-'s event also fea­ ber Giulia Falco, who worked on the news­ "Byzanti ne Icons: Α Γt , Techniqιιe and Tech- tuΓed a display of kites by young aΓtists, paper clippings, a11d Student Associate 11 0logy," oΓgan i ze d by Ge1111adeio11 DiΓec­ speciaHy αeated fοι- the day, and a sale Μe ιηbeΓ Canιilla MacKay, who updated the toι· Haris Kalligas and Maria Vassilaki of of books fΙΌιη the Library's d ιιplicate vol­ topographical bibliography. tl1e Be11aki Museιιm and sponsored by the ιιnΊ es. The event, attended by ιηοre than A.G. Leventis Fo ιιndati on and the St. I ,000 people, was underwritte11 by the GeoΓge Lycabettus Hotel. Α seq ιι e l to the A.G. Leventis Foιιndat i on and a anony­ 1997 Gennadeio11 c nference, 'Ά Γt and mous d o n o Γ . Technology in Latin GΓeece ," the aim ofthis yea~·'s meeting was to pool Γece11t woΓk and *** di scoveries i11 the s tιιd y of Byzantine art. The Ρhί lοί (F Γie11ds) of the Ge11nadius Scie11tific ΓeseaΓch on icon prodιιction LibΓary held theiΓ a nnιι a l GeneΓa l Meeting techniqιιes has intensifi ed in Γece l1t yeaΓs at the LibΓary 011 Feb ωary 16. In the annual and has b eco ιη e a11 incι-eas in g l y iιηpoΓt ant report, acti11 g Vice PΓesident Ioanna Phoca aspect of the s tιιd y of Byzanti11 e an. The announced a successful gΓal1t applicatio 11 co ll a b o Γ a ti o l1 of conservators, organic to the Stavros S. Niaι-chos Foιι11datio11 for chemists, nιιclea~· physicists, mineΓalogists , assisting the ΡΙ1ίlοί i11 their activiti es. Sug­ co mpιιteΓ specialists, and aΓt hi sto Γians gested by Eleni DΓacopoιιlos , the applica­ offers new insight into the s tιιd y of icons. tion was pΓesented by SandΓa Cambani , Technical a 11 alysis not onl y shows the Fofo Mavrikiou, Ioanna Phoca, and Maria stages of pΓepaΓatiol1 and pai11ting of icon Chorafa. pa11els, but also pΙΌduces scientific data that CultιιΓal activities inclιιd ed a visit in

Dolla Me πίllees, Deakin Unίvasίty, Melboιιrne, can identify the c iΓcιιmstance, place, and NoveιηbeΓ 1997 to the Athens PictιιΓe Αιι. s t rαl ί α, ιιs ed α rνvo-νvee k ίnternsl1ίρ αι the prod ιι ct i o n date of an individual panel. GalleΓy , wl1ere the ΡΙ1ίlοί weΓe gιι ided Blegen Arcl1ίv es to ρreρa re α di sρlay on The sessions weΓe addΓessed by foι-ty­ thΓoιιgh an exhibition of Γare ιη a11 ιι scι- ipts " Weαv ίng ίη Antίqu. ί ty." Ph.oto: Μαι · ί e Μαιι zy two speakers who pΓesel1ted papers encon1- ω ηtίιιιι eι/ ο ιι ρage 16 6 Getty Funds Library Retroconversion

The Getty Grant Program has awarded 500,000 titles, encompassing not only the Link of Ρωνο , Utah, for retωco n versio n the ASCSA $230,000 to cover the School 's history of Greece but also the cultural heri­ ofthe 350,000 n o n -G Γeek titles. Retro Link portion of the cost of completing the sec­ tage of people ίη the Eastem Mediterranean has provided lib Γary database services to ond (and last) phase of the Argos Project and the Balkan Peninsul a. thousands o t:lib ra ι-i es since its fo unding in ( AΓchaeo l og i ca l GΓeek Online System). In 1994, the NHRF's National Docu­ 1986, and has successfully co n ve ι-t e d The gι-ant will be used for Γetω co nvers ion mentation C e nteΓ (NDC) received funding ΓecoΓd s in moι-e than 170 languages. of the book collections in the Bl egen and through the European Union's (EU) Sci­ Without the support of the Getty Grant Gennadius Libraries and for equipιηent and ence and Technology pωgram . Although Program for retroconversion of the Blegen upgrades that will facilitate access to the the funds repΓesented just half of the and Gennadius Libι-aι-y collections, which Argos database. In addition, it provides amount Γequested, the pωjec t could piΌ­ number in excess of 113,000 titles, the funding for a technical consultant, who wiH ceed. In the first phase, begun in May 1995, Aigos Project would have been forced to oversee the final phase of the pωject , and all periodicals in the paΓticipating libΓaries stop afteΓ completion of only a poΓtion of for staff assistance in the libraΓies during were entered in a database and loaded on the collections. While the grant only the period of retroconversion. the NDC's central server, 'Ήerme s, " cre­ directly funds work in the ASCSA librar­ Established in 1992, the Aigos Project ating a Union Catalogue of Periodicals, ies, it allows the Γemaining EU funds to is a collaboΓation of the libι-aries of thir­ which is now accessible to member libΓaΓ­ be used to finish the project in all of the teen foι-eign advanced research institutes ies both electωnically and in haι-d copy and other libraι-ies. located in Athens and dedicated to the study also via Telnet. of aι-chaeology, aΓt, history, language, and The second phase, data entry of books, liteΓature of Greece, and the libraries of the was divided into two sub-phases. In the first Unique Greek School National Hellenic Research Foundation sub-phase, now completed, Greek language Texts Given Το (NHRF). The aim of the pωject is to αeate books totaling some 150,000 voluιηes a computerized catalogue and to ιηake were entered. Fοι- the second sub-phase, Gennadius Library accessible online the holdings of these devoted to books written in languages other libΓaries, which together number some than Greek, the Aigos Pωject hiΓed Retω Through the geneωsity of Lloyd Ε. Cotsen, President of the ASCSA Board and Chairman of the Gennadeion BoaΓd , the Book Presentation Honors Linnέr Library has acquired a Γaι-e collection of nine eaι-ly sixteenth-century Paι-isian Greek the authoι- himself, was attended by the school texts bound together in one volume. Greek Ministeι- of Culture, Evangelos Venizelos, and the Swedish Vice Minister The binding is contempoι-ary limp vellum, paitly loose, with a table of contents en­ of Women's Rights, Ingegerd Sahlstωm. tered by the oι-iginal sixteenth-century Also inaugurated the same evening was an owneΓ on the fωnt pastedown. On the first exhibition of forty - thι-ee travel books by title page the owneι-ship signature, women who eitheΓ triιveled or lived in Greece between 1687 and 1870. Written at "Girard," appeaι-s and at the end of the last woΓk the contemporary signature of a time when women weι-e geneΓally con­ Jehan Giι-ard, possibly the Neolatin poet sideι-ed no more than traveling companions (1518- 1586). for their husbands and were rarely accepted The volume opens with Alphabetuιn as authoΓs in their own right, the collection Gωecum, Paι-is 1539, an exceedingly rare is impoιtant as much fοΓ its social signifi­ Greek ''ABC" that served as an elementary cance as for its literary ιηeι-ίt. introduction to the language. PΓinted by C h Γestien Wechel, who specialized in Greek school texts, it contains a guide to the pronunciation ofthe Greek l etteΓs, trans­ l iteΓation, accentuation, numerals, a list of all the ligatures, and, fοι· pΓactice Γeading, the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, the Hail ΜaιΎ, and the Thirty-second Psalm. The texts aΓe printed in Greek with Αιι. t/ωr Caι·l Stιπe Lίnne r s ίg n e d books α ι ιl1 e Gennade ίon s pΓes enιaιίon σjΆ Swedish Lady in facing Latin veΓsions. 19th CeιHUtΎ Greece. Following theAlphabetιιn1 are four more Wechel editions: Constantino Lascaris's ln JanuaΓy , the Gennadius LibΓary GΓeek grammaι- , only the second known hosted the presentation of Α Swedίsh La(/y copy, PaΓis 1535; Gι-eek Γhetorician ίn 19tl1 Ce ntιι ry Greece, a GΓeek transla­ Aphthonins of Antioch's Pωgyιnnasnωta, tion of Frec!Γίka Βι-e ιnα Ι GΓe klan(/ , fiΓst PaΓis 1536; Gianmaria Cattaneo's Latin published in 1965 by Caι-1 Sture Linner, a tΓanslation of the Pωgyιnnasιnata , Paris Swedish Professor of Greek and di stin­ 1539; and a very ι-are e dίtίo pΓίn ceps of guished inteι-national civil seι-v a nt who the Pseudo-Aristotelian On ViΓtues and married a GΓeek and now lives in Athens. Π1 e Sw edίs/1 Vί ce Mίnί s ι e r of Won1en s Rίg h.ts , Vί ces , PaΓis 1538. The editor, an obscuΓe The book's pΓesentation , in the presence of lngegerd Sa l1 ls tro ιn. co n ι ί nuecl on ρage 17 7 Gennadeion Feted in NYC, NJ

The Caτneg ie Hall debut on ApΓil 29 of Stavros XaΓhako s and the State Orchestτa of Hellenic Music drew an enthu siastic audience of some two thousand people, mostly members of the New York Γegion's Greek-AmeΓican community, to heaΓ a per­ formance benefiting the Gennadius Library. The New York concert was followed later that week by a performance in New Jersey. Maestro Xarhakos, one of Greece's leading composers and conductoΓs , led the eighteen musicians in a presentation of his symphony-length work, ' Όdi-Poreias ," or 'Όde: Α Musical Journey thiough Helle­ nism." Drawing on melodies from tradi­ tional and popular Greek music, he wove a tapestry that evoked centuΓies of Greek !η tlιe ballι-σ o ιn of ιh e St. Reg ί s Hotel, New York (lefι ιο rίg lιl) Gen nadiιι s Lίbωry Benefit Cochaίr hi story from Byzantium to the present. Tec/ Athanassίades , lιono ι·ecl guests Maestros Dίno Anagnost and Stavι-σs Xarlιakos , ancl Cochair Della Rou nί c k . Pl1 oto: Davίd Goulcl The Caτnegie Hall concert was one of fouτ events that same week dedicated to the LibraΓy. Beginning with a formal dinner for thτee hundτed people in the ivory and gold ballτoom of the St. Regis Hotel, the events included a second concert at The College of New Jersey, followed by a dinner at hi s­ toric Henry House on the caιηpus of Princeton University, with the collaboration of Pήnceton 's Program in Hellenic Stud­ ies. Thanks to the generosity of donors who paid up to $25,000 in sponsorships, the events cleared nearly $90,000 for the Gennadeion's campaign to Γenovate and modernize. The week culminated months of plan­ ηing and prepaΓations under the leadership of Ted Athanassiades, a Gennadeion Trustee, Della Rounick, a New York busi­ nesswoman, and Catherine deG. Vander­ Libι-ctl) ' Trustee Eclnιu. ncl L. Keeley and M!'s. Keeley at tlι e Ne;v York b e nefίt. Plωto: Davίd Goιιld pool, President of the Libraιγ. Others on the benefit committee included Mr. Athanassiades' wife, Elaine, Theodora Lee Corsell, Lucretia Edreos, Fannie Petallides Holliday, FΓan KaΓivalis , Elena Katsulos, ApΓi l Michas, PeteΓ Κ. Moutis, the VeΓy Reverend Eugene Ν . Pappas, Stephania Schall, Georgia Tavlarios, Joanne Theo­ dorou, Sandra Vassos, and Jenny Xanthos, among otheΓs. Main sponsor of the CaΓnegie Hall concert was Atlantic Bank of New York, whi le the Orchestia was flown to America t.hanks to ALTEC S.A., staying at Hyatt Hotels in New Yoik and Princeton as guests of the Hyatt CoφoΓa­ tion. Other major benefactors included Ted and Elaine Athanassiades, Nicholas J. Bouias, the Latsis Group of Companies - John S. Latsis (U.S.A.) Inc. , Meιτill Lynch & Co., Inc., The Paraskevaides Gωup , and Della Rounick and Costas Kondylis & At lωnasios Zen ι as (left), ιnιι s ί co logίst and pαfοι ·ηι α wit/1 tlι e State Oι·cl1 es tι Ό of He llen ί c Μιιsίc , Associates. ;vί th. Alexancler Ne lωιnas , Ρι-σfessΌ ι · of Plιίlosopl1.y and Co ιn.paωtiΙ ι e Lίt e ι ·atιιre at Princeton Un ivers·ity, αι clίnna ιιηdα tlι e tent at Henry Ho u .~e . p,.inceton. Plι oto : Faith Βα /ι αdιι ι · ίαη

8 School Reports ographies of modern Greece, completing over fifty on authors as disparate and im­ portant as Whitn1an, Valery, Eliot, Cavafy, George Katsimbalis: Papadiamantis, and many otheΓs. He was among the first to translate Greek poetry Α Life in Letters into English (w ith Theodore Stephanides, As Maecenas was to Rome and Samuel mentor of the Duπell brothe Γ s) and encour­ Johnson was to E ngland, so George aged, if not singlehandedly directed for Katsimbalis was to modern Greece and its many years, the translation of Greek works literature. Colossal both in his appetites and into English, French, Italian, and Swedish in his conversation (as Henry Miller te ll s through his correspondence with transla­ it), there could be no fi ner guide or regis­ tors such as Eugene Clement, F ili pomaΓia trar for Greece, for one's bell y οΓ soul. He Pontani, BuΓt Knos, Philip S h erraΓd , and was a "human phenomenon," according to others. He persistently campaigned for a his lifelong friend and Nobel laureate Greek candidate fοΓ the Nobel Prize in 1it­ George SefeΓi s, "the truest Greek Ι know," eratuΓe . And he fo unded, bankrolled, and

to Lawrence Durrell. Yet hi s manifo ld ef­ directed the most imponant literary jour­ Solclίe rs ' ίnsc rίptίon lιonorίng theiι· coιnmander, forts for the promotion of Greek \ e tt eΓs have nal in the histot)' of GΓeece, Nea Gram ιnata from ι!ι e Athenίan Agora (Agora Ι 1033). never been publicly recorded or properly (Modern Letters), in the pages of which in Ρ!ι οιο: Agora Excavaι ί ons studied. 1935 one could find the co ωbin ed veι·se of As Μ . Alison Frantz Fellow fοι·1997-98, Palamas, Sikelianos, Cavafy, SefeΓis , and Soldiers' Legislatiνe Acts my project was to read and translate se­ Elytis all in a single issue. Yet the details The literary record of Greece pιΌvides lected passages fro m Katsimbali s's nearly and the degree of Katsimbalis's galvani z­ us with many g liωp ses of soldiers in fifty-year correspondence with George ing role in co nteωpoπU)' Greek literature assembl y. As early as Homer we find the Seferis, an unpublished manuscript of over have gone almost unpublished. Greek soldiery voting with their feet to a 800 pages. Numerous references in these And this Johnson had no Boswell at his proposition forwarded by Agaωernnon in letters to various names, journals, and side. SefeΓi s, in one of his lette Γ s, urges the the second book of the Ilίad. Odysseus, a projects that Katsimbalis had undertaken critic (and second cousin) Zisiωos hero, king, and general, must compel the or had in mind to undertake foΓced me to Lorentzatos to play Eckermann to investigate even more letters: those of the Katsimbali s 's Goethe and take notes of his soldiers to return to assembly. He does so so-called "National Poet," Kostis Palamas; conveΓsation. Otherwise the only written by stressing the social and political differ­ the correspondence Katsimbalis had with record of the man would be the ''lyric ences between men; coΠlillon soldiers are the leading critic of that generation, prose of an AmeΓican and the libels of hi s not meant to think or act, but meΓe l y obey Andreas Karantonis; the letters exchanged literary enemies in Athens." However, and feel shame before theiΓ \eaders. between him and Greece's second Nobel­ Katsimbalis was content to allow his love Odysseus says it plainly: "Rule by many is winning poet, Elytis, and so on. Ιη short, Ι of literature to stand as "the onl y sign of not a good thing: Let th eΓe be one leader/ discovered, in epistolary forrn, a largely un­ my passing on thi s earth ." This year Ι have one king ..." ( Hoωer, Ilίad 11.204). written history of the most ce\ebrated pe­ tried, like a belated Boswell, to gather and Ιη post-Κleisthenic Athens the mode of ήod of contemporary Greek literatuΓe , most present the scraps of Katsilllbalis 's badinage political decision-making had changed; thi s of it emerging from the formerly invisible and the evidence of his many labors ο η the change reaches into the world of the sol­ figure of Katsimbalis himself. part of Greek poetry, which he loved " ωore di er. Thucydides' portrayal of the revolt and As th e acknowledged "general" and than anything else in ωy life." actions of the Athenian contingent at Saωo s steward of Greek letteΓs , Katsimbalis set Αvί S!taron centers on democratic political asseωbly: about compiling the first systematic bibli- 1997-98 Μ. Alίson FΓantz Fellow "Some uΓged the city be ωled by democ­ racy, others that the aiωy be subject to oligarchy. But at once the soldiers ω ad e an assembly . .. and standing in tum they ωade various motions to each other ... and upon discussing such affairs in assembl y with each other and encouraging one another they made preparation for war with no less zeal." (τhucydides , Ηί stοη VIII.76). Xenophon also describes so ldi eΓs in asseω ­ bly throughout th eAnabasίs . The procedure he describes often evokes the diction and content ofϊnsCl'iptions. InsCl'iptions, then, may prove a valuable tool to approach ques­ tions concerning the collecti ve political acts of so ldi e Γ s. My work examines some seventy-five legislative docuωents of military bodies stationed in garrisons of Attica, specificall y George Katsίmbal ίs ( left), beh. ίnd tl1e s ιn oke , convases wίt/1 Greek poet, Kostas Varnalίs ( ι ·ίgl1t) , Rh aωn o u s , Sounion, Eleusis, Panakton, ~vhίle unίde ntifi eclιnan ίη the nιίddl e l ίstens. Plωto courtesy ojtl1e George Ka tsίιnba lίs Arclιίves. co nιίnue cl on ρage 12 9 At the Jαηuary 30 ρublίcatίoη party fσr τl1e Sanctuaιy ofDemeter and Kore: Topography and Aι-chitectuι-e, Corίηtlι XVIII, ίίί , coautlιors Naηcy Bookίdίs, Assίstant Dίrector of tlιe Schσσl and Gennadeίσn Trιιstees gathered ίη Corίηtlι Excavatίoηs, and Rσηald S. St ι Όud, Atl1ens fσι· theίr Juηe nιeetίηgs. Abσve, Lίbωry ASCSA Mellon Professor. Plιo to : Marίe Mauzy Bσard Chαίrmaη aηcl Schσσl Bσard Pres ίcleηt Llσyd Ε. Cσtseη (left) αnd hίs wife, Μαηjίt, wίtlι ~ Lίbrary Trustee Cσnstαηtίne Leventis αt α dίηηer fσr Trustees αnd their guests ση June 7 ίη the gαrcle n σf Mr. Leventίs 's receηtly restσred hσm e ίη the Plαka. Left, pίcturecl after α lιιηc/ιeση αnd tσur σf the Leαr eχhίbίtίση αt the Gσulandrίs Mu­ seum σf Cycladίc Art ση Jιιη e 9, Schσσl Trιιstee αηd outgσ ίηg Μαηαgίηg Cσmnιίttee Chaίr Alan L. Boegelιold αηd Mrs. Dolly Goιιlaηclrίs, Presίdeηt of the Nichσlas Ρ Gσulandrίs Fouη­ datίon. B e lσ,v, nωkiηg last ηιίηιιte phσηe calls before the Juη e 9 Geηηadίus Lίbrary Board nιeetίηg: (left to rίght) staηdίng , Trustee Ted Atlιaηassίades αηcl Lίbrary Diι·ectσr Harίs Kallίgas ; seated, Lίbrary Presίdeηt Catherίηe deG. Vaηderρoσl, αηd Trustees Apostolos Th. Dσχίαdίs aηcl Elίas Μ. Stαssίησpοιιlσs. Phσtos (left αηd below ): L. Cotseη Kαthleeη Slaηe, Uηίversίty of Mίssourί, gave the lecture, "Cσrίηth. ίαη Mίddlemeη: Regίσηal Trade ίη the Medίterraηeaη," at tlιe Schoσl 's aηnual Opeη Meetίng ση March 27. Photo: Marίe Μαιιzy

Blegeη Lίbrariaη Naηcy Α. Wίηter shows off tlιe lιι c/...)1 gold coin slιe wσn at tlιe Sclιool 's pίta cιιttίηg ση Janιιary 16. · pfιoto: Marie Μαιιzy 10 El ί z ab e th Fentress, Mellon Professor at tlι e Αnιαίcα η A c acle ιny ίη Rome, ~v ίth Co rίntlι Excava tί o n Dίrecto r Guy D.R. Sanclas, after her Dece ι nb e r 1997 l ec tιι re e ntίtl e d 'Ά R epublί can House ση tlι e Fσrum σfCo sa: the Hσ u se of Diana. " Ρhσ tσ : Marί e Mauzy ~

Wh ί te head Prσfe ss σ ι- Jeffrey S. Rιιste n lι ugs Sclι σσ l Dίrec tσ r Janι es D. Μιι/ι ly takes α hίs a ss ίs tant , w lιί c h projectecl clίg ίtί ze d ίmages c l ea \ ι e r to α sρ ίι -ι-oastecllaιnb at t /ιe S c /ωol's fσ r hίs Fe brιιa ι-y 17 lecture, " Πι e Βίrt/ι σf G ι ·ee k Eas t eι- ce l e bratίon ση Αρrί/ 1 9. Ρ!ισtσ: Cσ ι n edy." Ph σto: Marί e Μαι ι zy Mary Dσ ~vnίng (tlιe Dίrecto r 's s ί s ter)

~ ~ On January 22 the School held a publica­ tion party celebrating the release of Athe­ n ίan Potters and Paίnte rs , Oxbow Mono­ graph 67, the proceedings of the ASCSA intemati onal conference held at the School in December 1994. ASCSA 1997-98 Whitehead Professor John Η. Oakley, The College of Wil1iam and Mary, William D. Ε. Coulson, then School Director, and Vassiliσs Tzaferis, Exc avatίσns and Surveys Olga Palagia, Athens Universi ty, were D ίrec toι ; lsrael Antίqιιίtί es Autlιo r ί ty, spσke at the Sc lι σ σl ίη Dece ιnb a 1997 ση "Ten co-organizers ofthe conference and editors Ye aι-s σf Arclι a eo log ίc al Research at Βα ηία s of the proceedings. (Ca e sa ι ·e a Ρ/ιίlίppί)." Ρhσ tσ : Μα ι-ί e Μαιιzy

Cι-α ί g Μαιι zy perfσ πnecl )' eσ ιn. an s se ιv i ce w lιen α \ ιa / v e bιιι·s t ίη tlιe Α ι ·c/ιίΙιe s ίη th.e Wh. ίte h. ead Pι-ofe s sσ r Jσ /ηι Η. Oakley w ίtlι Jι ι tta Stι-o szec k , new Dίrec tσ r σf tl1. e Keι-aιn e ikσs , Blegen Lίbrary ί η Μαι-ι-/ι. Lίttle daιnage was fσllσ w ί ng Mr. Oakley's Jαηι. ι α ι-y 20 lecture, "Death and t lι e Panat lι e na ί a : An lnt ι · ίg uίn g Ne ~v clσn e (save ισ Craig) cle.φίte aflσσcl σfblack Masterpί ece by tlι e Κleσρ /ι ση Paίnte r. " Ρhσ tσ : Marί e Μαιι zy ~vate ι : Ρ!ισtο: Marί e Mauzy 11 ASCSA Application Deadlines for 1999-2000 New Funding for

Νο ν . 16, 1998 ΝΕΗ Senior Research Fellowship; Samuel Η. Κre ss JointAthens­ Study at ASCSA Jerusalem Fellowship Several newly named Fellowships and Dec. 15, 1998 Hunt~r ~ewi s Fellowship; Athenian Agora Volunteer Program a Summer Sessions Scholarship became Jan.6, 1999 Applιcatιon s f~r Regular Memberships; First Year Fellowships avai1able to Members of the ASCSA in Feb. l, 1999 St~dent As s ocιate Mei!lberships; Jacob Hirsch Fellowship; Μ . 1997-98: the Hunter Lewis Fellowship, the Alιson ~ellowshιp Frantz (formerly the Gennadeion Fellowship) Solow Summer Senior ReseaΓc h Fellow­ Feb. 5, 1999 Malcolm . Η. Wιener Laboratory Fellowships: J. Lawrence Angel ships, and the ASCSAAJurnnae/i Associa­ Fellowsh~p ;. Research Fellowship in Geoarchaeology; Research tion Summer Sessions Scholarship. Fellow s hιp ιη Faunal Studies The Hunter Lewis Fellowship, endowed Feb. 15, 1999 Harry Bikakis Fellowship; Oscar Broneer Fellowship' Mellon in recognition of Mr. Lewis's years of ser­ Research Fell?wships f?r C:entral and Eastem European Scholars; vice as Presi dent of the ASCSA Board of Summer Sessιons Applιcatιons; Summer Sessions Scholarships Trustees, is an honorarium available on an Mar. Ι , 1999 Solow Summer Senior Research Fellowships annual basis to Greek students and research For full application details, visit our website at www.ascsa.org or contact the ASCSA scholars who wish to work at the Gennadius U.S: Office, 6-8 Charlton s.ιreet , Pήnceton, NJ 08540-5232; Tel: (609) 683-0800; Lib~ary . At the moment, the Fellowship Fax. (609) 924-0578; E-maιl: [email protected]. carnes an honorarium of $1 ,500 and will be awarded by the Managing Committee's Committee on the Gennadius Library. Soldiers Goldsmith Grant continued froιn page 9 *** ~hyl~, a.nd Aphidna. The focus of my Benefits SEG Beginning with summer 1998, the ιnquιry ι s the inscriptions themselves, Solow Art and Architecture Foundation in supplemented by literary and historical Α timely and generous grant from the New York granted several summer fellow­ texts, archaeological anaJyses, as well as Horace W. Goldsrnith Foundation of New ships for postdoctoral scholars working York has ensured the continued publication other inscriptions. This year Ι have focused towards publication of materia1 from the of the Supplementun1 Epίgrapl1ίcuιn my research ο η the decrees and dedications School's excavations at the Athenian Agora housed at Eleusis, the Athenian Agora, and Graecum (SEG), a major research tool in or Ancient Corinth. The Solow Summer the Epigraphica1 Museum. After a year of the study of Greek inscriptions. Co-edited Senior Research Fellowships cover airfare by Η. W. Pleket, En1eritus Professor of hands-on work on these documents, Ι have to Greece and a stipend of $1,500 per found new readings on a1most every stone, Ancient History at the University ofLeiden, month. Named as 1998 Solow Fellows and Ronald S. Stroud, Mellon Professor of and Ι hope that these new observations will were Susan Ι. Rotroff (ASCSA 1968-69 Classical Studies at the ASCSA, the SEG contribute to a fuller understanding of the Professor 1994-95, recentl; provides an annuaJ collection of the texts W~itehe~d legislative acts of soldiers in assembly. retιred. Vιce Chairman of the Managing of all newly discovered Greek inscriptions The epigraphical record shows that the Commιttee), Professor ofCJassics at Wash­ and analysis of published scholarship on mili.tary involved itself not only with pro­ !ngton University, for her work on plain ware previously known documents. tectιng the borders and honoring generals ιη the Athenian Agora; Carol L. Lawton (the most common function of the decrees Continued pub1ication of thi s work which began in 1923 in Holland, was re~ (ASCSA SS1970, 1976-80, ΝΕΗ Fellow Ι exarnine), but also with such diverse tasks 1995-96), Associate Professor of Al't His­ as aiding commerce and founding temples. cently threatened by budget cuts in Leiden and by the loss of one of the Assistant Edi­ tory and Chair of the Art Department of These actions did not take place in a Lawrence University, for her work on votive vacuum, but rather within the political tors, Sara Β . Aleshire, who died suddenly ιη May 1997. Since Ms. Aleshire had con­ reliefs in the Athenian Agora; and John D. sphere ofthe fortified deme. Hence we find Macisaac (ASCSA Robinson Fellow 1982- soldiers acting in concert with demarches tributed her time φ SEG without remunera­ tion for twenty years, funds had to be 83, Gennadius Fellow 1987-88), Adjunct and other local officials. In foΓm, at least, secured to hire as her replacement a scholar Professor of Classics at Mary Washington the inscriptions reveal a military that is to College, for his work on the nurnismatic some degree democratic (a notion quite at with th~ .requisite skills in Greek epigra­ finds from the Theater of Ancient Coήnth. odds with modern conceptions of rnilitary phy, edιtιng , and preparing camera-ready copy on the computer. li~e). In i.ts completed form, Ι hope that my Thanks to the active interest of William *** dιssel'tatιon will provide new insight into At their December meeting in Chicago, Α. Slaughter, a School Trustee, the Gold­ the local organization, funding, and politi­ the ASCSA Alumnae/i Association voted smith Foundation awarded the SEG cal structure of encamped so ldieιΎ , offer to use its annual dues to support a Summer $60,000, to be adrninistered through the new readings and documentation of the Sessions scholarship for the next five years. epigraphical record left by the rnilitary, and ASCSA, to fund the position of Assistant Editor for the next three years. The Edito­ The Alumnae/i Association Scholarship afford a new approach to the hi storical , ar­ was first awarded in 1998 and covers Sum­ rial Boaι· d of SEG has appointed Mary Β . chaeological, and 1iteΓary construction of (Molly) Richardson as the new Assistant meι· Sessions fees. In addition to the new the lives of so ldieΓ s stationed throughout scholarship, the Alumnae/i Association's the Greek world. Editor. As an Associate Member of the School and a Working Fellow she has been 1998 annua1 donation provided funds for Kevίn F Daly instrumental ίη helping the editors prepare the purchase of fans for each guestroom in 1997-98 Ja cob Hίrsch Fello~v the cuπent volume of SEG (XLIV) on time. Loring Hall. ~

12 White-Ground Lekythoi Subject of Whitehead Professor's Seminar

John Η. Oakley (ASCSA 1976-77, 1978-79, Clωncellor Professor of Classical Stιιdies, τι~e College of Wίllίam and Mary ίη Vίrgίn ia) w ι ·ites below about hί s expeι-ίence as 1997-98 ASCSA Whίtehead Vίsίtίn g Professor.

Ask any vίsitor to the Natίonal Museum ωake it an experience that could not be in Aιh e n s what type of pottery they found reproduced anywhere else in the world. the most attractive th e ι-e , and inevitabl y the Accordingly, one of the first thίngs we answer will be the Athen ίan white-ground did was to take a day trip to Corinth, where lekythoi. These cylindrical oil containers Ian McPhee and Betsy Pemberton intro­ with polychrome painting on a lustrous duced the students to oil containers, par­ white background were placed in and on ticularly Corinthian ones. Later it was on Athenian graves between 470 and 400 B.C., to the Stoa of Attalos, where the students and the images on them provide iωportant were able to hold and examine closely evidence for classical Athenian funeraιγ white lekythoi fΓom theAgora excavations. rites. Because they weι-e used in ancient Vasilike Argyωpoulo s fωm the Wiener Athenian rίtιιal and are found primarily in Laboratory l ec tuι- ed the students on the Athens and Attica, the largest and fi nest col­ technology of pottery, and Alίce Pate Γ akis lection of them by far is in the National and Craig Mauzy, both members of the Museum at Athens; theι-e are also excel­ AgoΓa staff, talked about potteιγ conserva­ lent specimens in other Athenian museums. tion and photographing vases respectively. For these reasons, Athenian white-ground Perhaps a first in American School his­ lekythoi seemed to me to be a good choice tory was a joint meeting of both visiting An exa nψle ofwl1ίte - g round lekytlωί ιιs ecl ίη Athenίanfιιneι-ary rίtes . Photo courtesy oftlι e of subj ect for my serninar at the School. professoΓs' se rninaι·s. Because the hί sto ήan , Depa rtιnent of Classίcs , Universίry of One of the privi leges and great joys of a Thucydides, was the subj ect of J effΓe y S. Cantabury, Clυ-ίstclιιιrclι , New Zealand. Whitehead Vίsίtίng Professor is the oppor­ Rusten's seminar, and ωy se minaΓ was tunity to teach some of the best graduate interested in Athenian fu nerals, Pericles' Vogeikoff-Brogan arranged vases for tl1e students in one's special field of int e Γest. fun eΓa l oΓation provided a conΊmon topic students to draw, the vase gall eries in the This ί s even more true for those, lίke my­ of intet"est. This joint meeting was νeιγ National Mu se uιn , and a half-day excur­ self, who ίn s truct pήmaιily und eΓgι·aduates rewarding fοΓ both groups and was further sion to two ιnod e ι-n potteΓies, one of which at their hoιne institutions. In order to take fuLI enri ched by Joseph W. Day's talk on clas­ in Marousi still ωakes potteιγ using ιnany advantage ofthis special occasion, Ι d ec ίded s ίcal grave epigrams. ofthe an cίent methods. The other pωduces to incorporate as ω an y of the resources of Our other three ου ti ngs were to excellent ι- ep li cas of ancient vases. This last the School into ωy serninar as possible, to the School's Archives, where Natalia co ntin ι ι ed ο ιι page 15

Publications News Hall in late February. For many, th eiΓ plea­ sure in seein g the late Isabelle The Publications staff continues to work R a ubi tsc lΊ ek's The Metal Objects, 1952- on s tΓeanlli ning production and ωaxirni z­ 1989 (Isthmia VII) was mixed with sadness LERNA ing its use of technology. Manuscripts are that she did not li ve to see the work com­ now edited o n -sαeen , and plates are set pleted. Jol1n ΜcΚ. Can1p II's Horses and in tbe Argolid electronically in-house. Readers will have Ho ι ·se m ans l~ ip ίη tl~e AthenίanAgora (Pic­ noticed an impro vemeιit ίη the appearance ture Book 24), whi ch is richly illustrated of the plates in the fιrst iss ue of Hespe rίa for with color photographs by Craig Mauzy, thi s year (vol. 67, 1), whίch were produced appeared ίη late spring. Scheduled to appear using PageMaker and ΟΡΙ (open prepress ίη earl y fall a!"e Ronald S. Stωud' s The interface) scanning fοΓ the Ma c ίnto s h . Atl~enίan Gωίη-Ταχ Law of 37413 B.C. ( Hespeι-ίa Suppl e ιn e nt 29) and Maι·gaι·et Μ. *** Mίl es's Th e Cίtγ Eleιι. sinion (Agora ΧΧΧΙ). SeνeΙ"al new books appeared thi s past winter. The Lerna Pu~lίcatίon s Comωittee *** contributed its effo Γt s to an updated and Α ca mpaί g n has been launched to in­ newly designed version of Lerna ίη the crease the nιιωbe r of indi v i d ιι al sιιbscription A ι ·g olίd, the much-used s ίt e guidebook. to the joιιrnal Hespaίa, which is the pΓimaι·y More than thirty yeaι·s' work has come to vehi cle for pιιblί cat i on of the Γesιιlts of co ιnpl e tion with the publication of Nancy School excavations as wel! as the reseaΙ"ch Bookidis and Ronald S. Stωud 's Corinth of ιn any oth eΓ AmeΓican scholaΙ"s working volume, Th e San ct ιι ary of D en~ete r and in GΓ eece. M e ιηb ers of the Alumnae/i Kore: AΓc l~ίt ec tuΙ" e and Topo g Γaρl~ y Associati on ιnay sιιbscribe to Hespaίa at Ler11 a i11 the Argolid, Α Sl1ort Guide, first ( CoΓinth XVIII, iii); a joyous book pal"ty a twenty percent discount ($44) for a year, publίs lι. e d ίη 1977, ι ·ev ίs ed in 1997. was thιΌw n for the two a ιιth ors ίη Loring c οηιίιιιι ed on ρ age 14

13 Publication~ Schliemann Microfilm Project Completed cσ ιιriιιuedfι vnι page 13 Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan, ASCSA while students will receive a forty percent Archivist, Γeports the completion of the discount ($33). micωfilming of the Schliemann papers in the Gennadeion Archives, fi nanced in part *** Editor~i11-chief Kerri Cox has been by the LibΓaΓy's ΝΕΗ Challenge Grant and explori11g the varied uses of electro11ic by a g ι- a nt fω m the U.S. D e p aΓtm e nt of medi a for publishing School pωjects. She Education. The contι-act for the pωject was a11d author Jeremy Β . Rutter have cooper­ awaΓded to Athens Micωfilm Services, ated with Nick Eiteljorg of the Center for which successfully completed the task of the Study of Architecture i11 making avail­ microfilming more than 30,000 documents able online an electronic database derived (dia Γi es and inconιin g coπespondence) , from Mr. Rutter's School volume, The Pot­ following the latest standards set by the tery of Lerna /V. The database is i11te11ded U.S-based ReseaΓc h Libraries Group. Το as a starting point or model for other pot­ inψrove reader access to the microfilm col­ tery experts who might be i11terested in pub­ lections, the LibΓaιγ plans to puι-chase a lishil1g their studies i11 such a format. More second readeΓ-pΓinteΓ in the coming yeaι-. and moΓe authors aΓe thinki11g i11 terιηs of The Schlieιnann papers are the most fre­ electronic publication of theiι- material, and qιιentl y used collection in the Gennadeion Ms. Cox hopes that the School will soon Aπhives. Recently, peΓhaps in conjunction be producing volumes with electronic com­ with the growth of the field of women's ponents such as illustrations or searchable studies in the United States, theι-e has been catalogues on CD-ROMs or DVDs. aπ in αeased interest in Sophia Schliemann, whose papers are also housed in the *** Gennadeion Archives. Philologist Eleni The School has received a $125,000 Protopappa is working on the publication grant from the Arthur Vi11ing Davis Foun­ of the coιτespondence between Heinι-ich dations to underwrite the production costs and Sophia Schliemann, and Susa11 Heuck of Agora volumes; the grant will make it Anclroιna c /~ e ancl Soρhίa Schlί e ιnan n. Plωto: Allen and Stuart Wheeler of the University possible to keep the prices of these volumes Gennaclίιιs Lίbrary A ι·c hίv es ofRichmond aΓe working independently on low a11d he11ce more affoΓdable to il1di­ biog ι-aphical essays 011 Sophia Schlieιηann. gap. The new photogι-aphs portray Heinιich vidual scholars. In addition, the Kress Although the Schlieιηann papers i11 the Schliema1111 at various stages of his life, Foundation has awaτded a $90,000 five­ Gennadeion document most aspects of hi s Sophia, their childre11, a11d their gΓal1d­ year grant to the Agora Publication Fellow­ life, the number of photogι-aphs in the col­ childrel1. The credit for this new acquisi­ ship program. The grant will provide lection is noticeably small. Α recent gift of tion goes to Amalia Kakissis, a11 assista11t $18,000 a1111ually to a senior scholar to forty photographs from a descendant of the in the Archi ves for the past thτee years, who come to the Agora and work on ιηateιial to Schlieman11 fanιily has helped to fill ιhis located the donor. be published in the Athenian Agora seΓies . Former ASCSA Consultant and Classics Grad Running for Congress

Jea11 Parvin Bordewich, who co l laboι-a­ and the way a society reinforces the respon­ ted with Josiah Ober, Charles W. Hedrick, sibilities of citizenship are νe ι γ important and Catheι-ine ct'eG. Vanderpool on the to keeping the system strong. Ι began think­ School's Democracy 2500 Project in 1994, ing about my own relatio11ship to, and is running for Congress in New Yoι-k ' s responsibilities i11 , the community and twenty-seco11d Co11gressio11al District in the decided to put my thoughts into actio11." upconύng Noveιηber electio11s. Α classics Ms. Bordewich has been endorsed by major at Brown Univeι-sity, Ms. Boι-dewich the Democratic Party for a11 open seat αe­ received a Β.Α. in 1973 . Ηeι- senior thesis ated by the Γetire ι ηent of υ .S. Represel1ta­ advisor was Charles Segal, now a classics tive Geι-ald Sοlο ι ηο11 (R). There is a six­ professor at ΗaιΎaΓd U11iνeι-sity. She has way Republican pΓimary on SeptembeΓ 15 also seι-ved as a television consultant to the to select her opponent. New York's twe11ty­ Natio11al Humanities CenteΓ in Research seco11d Congressional Di strict stretches Triangle Paτk , NC, whose diι-ector is Robe ι 1 along ιhe east barιk of the Hudson River Conneι-, formerly chairιηan of the classics from Hyde Park in the south to Lake Placid department at Princeton University. in the north (with the exception of Albany, " Woι-ki11g wiιh Josh, Chaι-les , a11d Cathy Schenectady, and Troy) and also includes on the School's 2500 Pωject helped ιηe Saratoga County and some of the Catskill thi11k moι-e deeply about the natuι-e of Mountain towns 011 the west side of the Jean. Ραr1 ι ίιι Bo ι ·deνvίcl~ , 1998 ca ndίclat e ίη New deιηocracy and citizenship," says Ms. Hudson River. Υο ι ·k s twenty-second Congressional Dίstrίc t. Bordewich. ''rhe way citize11ship is defined 14 ΝΕΗ Fellowship Senior Fellowship Focuses ση τrojan War Deadline Announced 1997-98 ΝΕΗ S e nίor Researc:h Fellow Gιιy Μ. Heclreen (ASCSA 1984-85, 1985-86), Associate Professo Γ ofΑ η at Williaιns College, Γeco unts below the rewMds, both NovembeΓ 15, 1998, is the deadline sch.o[a ,.[y ancl pasonal, oj'a year spent in Atl~ens ~vίth the suρ,ρon of α Natίonal for applications fοΓ the 1999- 2000 ΝΈΗ Endowιnentfor tl~ e Huιrι. anities ' postdoctoralfe llωvs l~ίp. Senior Research Fellowship at the ASCSA. Designated for study in the The American School 's ΝΕΗ post­ Ι teach at a lib eΓa l ωts college, wheΓe fields of history, philosophy, language, doctoral fellowship has ι ηade it possible fοΓ 011ly a few colleagues have any detailed literature, art, and archaeology ofGreece 111e to complete a book 0 11 the narrative knowledge of classical studies, archaeol­ and the Greek world, from pre-Hellenic fιιn ct ion of setting (trees, ωcks, a lt aΓs , cο l ­ ogy, ΟΓ ancient ω·t. Teaching at Williams, Ι times to the present, the fellowship is ιιιηn s, etc.) in Archaic and EaΓ l y Classical have learned ιηuch about other fields, but available to postdoctoral scholars at aiJ visual representatio11 s of the Tωjan War. it is good to be, o 11 ce again, aiηOI1g so many levels, from assistant through full pro­ The book aΓg u es that the development of sc h o laΓ s a11d stιιdents of classical s tιιdie s. Ι fessors, who are U.S. citizens or foreign the re pe rtoiΓe of setting in the visual an s have Γeceived invaluable he lp 011 my nationals who have lived in the U.S. for was prompted by a d es iΓe to n aπ a te stories project, learned a g Γeat deaJ about recent the three years immediately preceding more fu lly, not by an interest in represent­ developments in ot h eΓ areas of the disci­ the application deadline. The ΝΕΗ ing the visible woΓ l d moΓe acc uΓa tel y . The plil1e, and have been relieved of the 11eed Fellowship offers a maximum annual study also shows that ma11y of the stories to explain the 111ost basic aspects of my stipend of $30,000. circul ati11g among aΓt i sts diffe.-ed i11 ful1- wo ι ·k (e.g., Sata11 was 11 0t one of the GΓeek Applicants should send a cιιrriculum damental ways fω ιη those tΓan s mitte d in gods, etc.). vitae with a Jist of publications; a de­ poetΓy and that visual tΓaditi o n was less The ge n eιΌus teΓm s of the fellowship tailed statement of the project (up to five dependent on the lit e Γ a Γ y tΓaditi o n than made it feasible fοΓ a fa n1il y of fοιιΓ to spend pages in length) with selected bibliog­ often thought. n ea Γi y a year in Athe11s. Ath e11s has cl1 anged raphy, stating the importance of the re­ The book also tries to establish that two a lot in tl1e 11i11etee11 years that Ι have known search, the methodologies involved, and s toΓi es in panicular pl ayed significant ω l es it, but Γ e tain s ma11 y of its endeari11 g quali­ the reasons it should occur in Greece at in the visual tΓ ad iti o n : the buildi11g of the ti es: the Kafkaesque offices of obscure the ASCSA; and three letters of refer­ wall s of Τωy by Apollo seems fΓequ e 11tl y buΓea u crac i es, gω · dens on tops ofthe build­ ence from scholars familiar with the to have been associated with the sack of ings, omniscient pharmacists, etc. And appHcant's work and field of proposed Troy by late AΓchaic Athe11ian vase­ ma 11 y of the changes aΓe for the betteΓ. Το study who can comment on the feasi­ pa inte Γ s, and Achilles' muΓd e Γ of Troilos menti on the two most importa11t: TheΓe is a bility of the project and the applicant's was conceived of by the visual arti sts as a certain o ptiιηi sm aιη o n g yoιιn g Athenians, ability to complete it successfully. human sacri fice. Those two observations due peΓh ap s to not having li ved through the Applications and requests for further have inψorta nt co n se qιι e n ces fο Γ und e Γ­ Geπηan occupation, civil war, and military information on the School or the Fel­ standing the course of the Tωja11 WaΓ as a di c t a t oΓs hip ; and good Italian coffee is lowship should be sent to: ΝΕΗ Senior whole. The divine character of the walls avail able eveιΎwhe ι ·e. Research Fellowship, American School determined or limited the mea11 s by which ~ of Classical Studies at Athens, 6- 8 the city could be sacked. And the charac­ Charlton Street, Princeton, NJ 08540- t e Γi za tion of the mιιrd e r of Τωί los as a 5232; Tel: (609) 683-0800; Fax: (609) saCΓifice casts Achilles' motivation in a 924-0578; E-mail: [email protected]; diffeΓent light a11d iιηplic ates o th eΓ heros Website: www.ascsa.org. (and even deiti es) not only in the death of Tωilos but also in the death of Achilles. Many ancient vases and aΓchitectural Lekythoi sc ulptuΓes in Greek mιι seum s figured in my co ntin ι ι ed fro ιn ρa ge 13 Γesearc h , but the m osι mpoΓt a nt resource trip was open to all meιηbers ofthe School has been the libΓ a ry of the A ιη eΓ ical1 community, and the bus was filled. School. Most of the research libraries that In between these special treats there Ι have worked in ονe Γ the last ten yeaΓ s have weΓe regular weekly thτee-hour meetings s ιιffe red in one way or a noth e Γ fωm a com­ in the seminar ιΌοm , both to examine the bil1 ati on of ri sing costs, s hιinkin g ι ·eso urces , natuΓe of the artists who decorated these a11d changing pΓi o Γitie s. The libraιΎ of the vases and to analyze the developme11t and Aιηerican School is a striking exception to meaning of the three ιηain subjects found the trend; without c ιιttin g back on acq ιιi si­ on the lekythoi: do n1 estic, mythological tions, it has managed to grow physically in mini s t e ι ·s of death (Hermes, Charon, order to acco mιη odate the increases in the Hypnos, and Thanatos), and vi sits to the size of the coll ecti on and in the numbe Γ of g Γ aνe. Previoιι s ly , the School's ΝΕΗ fel­ people ιι s i11 g it. Anyone in classical s tιιd ­ low, Gιιy Μ. H ed Γee l1 , had i11trod ιι ced the ies co ιιld make a li st of items that the Ιίb ηιη students to diffe Γe nt appωac h es fοΓ inter­ ought to have (w h eΓe's the Roland Banhes?), pretil1 g images on vases. Trιιly , this was a but omi ssions notwithstanding, the libΓaΓ y semi11ar that co ιιld o nl y have take n of the Aιηeri ca n School remain s the finest, Rose Hed ι ·een, daιιgl11a of ΝΕΗ Se nίol' place at the AmeΓican School of Classical most co ιηpl ete, and efficient research R eseaπ/1 Fe/low Guy Hed!'een, exρaί e n c i ng Studies. faci li ty that Ι have eνe Γ used. Kolonakί cojj'ee c ιιltu ι ·e, New YeM5· Day, 1998.

15 School Retains New Lawyer in Greece

The Tωstees recently announced the hiring of MaΓia Papadopoul ou as the new attorney fοΓ the School 's operations in GΓeece. τι-ained at the University of Ath­ ens Law School (LLB) and the Law School σf the Uni versity of London's London School of Eco n oωics and Political Science (LLM, 1985), Ms. Papadopoulou is a part­ ner in the Athens law fi πη of Stavropoul os, Tsiri & P ap ad opo ιιl o u . Before forming her c u ιτe n t pa Γ t n eΓs hi p in 199 1, she was associated fο Γ five yeaΓS witl1 Lambadarios & Associates Law Office, one of Athens' oldest and ω ost distingui shed law firms. Stavropoul os, Tsiri & Papadopoul ou has corresponding offices in many Greek cities and also has associates in maj or European cities and in New York th ω u g h On-Sίte '98 stanecl its tοιιr οf Τιιηί s ί α on May 18 ~vίιh α receptίon at tlιe lιeadqιι a rtas οjιο ιπ its participation in tl1e E uιΌ-A m eή can Law­ c οsρο ιι sο ι ; ιhe Cenι ι ·e d'Etιιcles Mag hrebίn es iι 7ιι. ηίs (CEMAT), tlι e overseas researc lι centeι­ yers Group. Its cli ent base is predominantl y of tlιe Αηιeι-ίcιιη lnstitu. ι e jor Mag lυ · ib Stιιdί e s. Tl1 ίs year's ιwο and α lω lj' week s t ιιcly tour European and North Ameri can mu1tina­ tωveσecl tl1e country j'ι-ο ιη tlιe /ιιs/1. M eclίt e πan ean valleys ojιh. e nort/1 to t lιe soι ι t l1an ti onal cωηp a ni es with acti vities in Greece Sα /ωωη sand. Π1 e ίtin eι-ary in c lιιdecl stops α ι tl1 e Caι·ιh. age Excava t ίons oj' t lιe Unίversίty oj' and throughout the wider Balkan region. C e orgίa , whose diι ·eαor, Ναο ιηί J. Νο π1ιαη , 1-vas coleada oj' On-Sί ι e '98 w ί t lι R ί clω rd S. Ms. Papadopoul ou, whose associati on with Mason oj' ιhe Unίveι-sίty oj' Maι ·yiand, Βα/ιίηωΓe Coιιnty and C e oι-ge Mason Unίveι-s i t) >. the School began in late Jun e, will work on Above, Ms. Noπnan lectιιΓes α ι tl1 e Antonine Batlιs ίη CcΙΓtlωg e. Plιoto: E l aίne Coclwίn tax, personnel, Γea l estate, and other issues facing the School in an increasingly com­ Committee plex business environment. cοιιιίηιιedjΙΌιιι ρa ge 4 Uni versity), Kevin Crotty (Randolph­ Macon Wo ω a n 's College), Matthew W. vania State U ni νe Γ s it y); Committee on Dickie (U ni ve Γ s it y of Illinois at Chicago), Committees, Williaιη R. Bie Γ s (U n iνeΓs i ty Philoi Judith Evans-Grubbs ( Sw eetBιi ai Coll ege), of Missouri) as Chaiiιηan , Cath eΓi n e Μ . co nt ί nιι e d jίΌηι ρa ge 6 R. Leon Fitts (Dickinson College), George Keesling (Geoι·getow n Un i veΓsity), Chris­ W.M. H aπi so n (Xavier U ni νe Γ s ity), Peter fω ιη European libraries by Costas Staikos, tina Α. Salowey (Hollins Coll ege), and Ε. Knox (Uni versity of Colorado) E ι · i c the exhibit's curator. Also in November, Alan Shapiro (Johns Hopkins University); Orlin (Bard College), James Τ Powell they attended the Tsaω u c hi s Foundati on's Gennadius Library, Geoige L. Huxley (At (Wake Forest University), A lan Shapi ro exhibition, "The Karagiozis in the Wo Γk s Large) and RichaΓd Ρ. Ma Γ ti n (PΓin ceto n (Johns Hopkin s U ni νe Γ s it y), Martha C . ofYiannis Tsaω u c hi s," under th e guidance Univeisity); PeΓso nnel , Ma Γ y Β. ΜοοΓe Tay loi (Loyola College in M a ι Ύ i a nd ) and of its PΓes id e nt , Nicky Grypari . (Hunter College); Publications, Caω l C. Nancy Worω a n (Barnard College). In Februai y, the Friends' annual event Mattusch ( GeoΓge Mason University) as In addition, Charles Beye (City Uni ver­ in ωem o ry of Gennadeion founder Joannes ChaiΓιηan , Darice Birge (Loyola Univer­ sity of New York), Eli zabeth R. Gebhaid Gennadius featured a lecture presented by sity of Chicago), and Jenifer Neil s (Case (Uni versity of Illinois at Chi cago), and hi s toΓi a n D o nιn a Donta, who foc used on Westeω Reserve Uniνeisity); Summer Te φ s i c h o Γi Tzavella-Evjen ( Uni ve Γ s it y Gennadios's contribution as a diplomat Sessions, Diane Harήs - Ciine ( U niνeis it y of of Coloiado), were named as Managing du Γ in g the years he was posted to London Cincinnati); Excavation and Survey, Curti s Committee Members En1eritus!a from their and Vienna. Ms. Donta's lecture will be Runnels (Boston Uniνe Γ s ity) . institutions. published by the Friends later thi s year. *** Elected to serve as ex offίc ί o membeis In a n o th eΓ Ρhίl οί acti vity, Fofo John Η. ΚιΌ ΙΙ (U niveΓsity of Texas at of tlι e Managing Committee, by v irtιι e of Mavrikiou, hi sto Γi an and acti ve member of Austin), Chaiπηan of the Co ι η ιη it t ee on their se ιΎ in g on various co mωi ttees, were: the Pl1 ίloi , l ec tιιred ίη Μ αι·c h on GΓeek stage Peisonnel, we l coιηed the fo llowing new Jane Bui ks tτa (Uni versity ofNew Mexico), aΓc hitec t Panos Aiavantinos (1886-1930) CoopeΓatin g Institutions at the Managing Williarn R. Fαιτand (Exhibit Museu111 ofNatu­ and hi s work at the Berlin State Opera from Coωmittee Meetings in DecembeΓ 1997 ral His t OJΎ , Uni versity of Michi gan), Julie 1920 to 1930. and M ay 1998: CΓeig l ιton University, Μ. Hansen (Boston U ni ve ι -s i ty), Diane Hanis­ The m e ιηb ers hip elected the following Dickinson College, Loyola College in Ci ine (Uni versity of Cinci nn ati ), Cl a iΓ e off i ce Γ s and members of the Board of Maryland, Wake Foiest Un iversity, and Lyons (τh e Getty Research lnstitute), Sarah DiΓec t o Γ s for 1998: Ioanna Phoca, Presi­ Xaviei University. Ρ. Monis (UniνeΓs i ty of Cali fomia at LosAn­ dent; Michali s Kotini s, Vice President; New Γeprese ntatives elected to the Man­ geles), Linda Jones Roccos (τh e Coll ege of Lydia Tricha, SeCΓetary General; Linos aging Committee at th e same ι ηeetings Staten Island, City Uni versity ofNew York), Benakis, Treasurer; and Adoni s Kyrou and inclιιded: GeoffΓey W. Bakewell (CΓeighto n and Curtis Runnels (Boston Uni versity) . Stell a Chrysochoou, Mem b eΓs .

16 ''ABC" co nt ί nued fro ι n page 7 scholar from Orleans, tells us that he fel l upon the text by chance in "some ancient manuscript." The sixth booklet, Lucian's popular Cynic di alogue Π1e Drean1, or the Rooster, is appaiently the ear1iest separate edition of the work, dated Paris 1530, and is a scarce imprint of the Dutchman Gerard Moπhy , who was active for on1y two yeais. The seventh includes Cicero's De Senectute and Sοη1.ηίιιm Sc: rίpί o nίs in Greek tΓ a n s la ­ tion, Pari s 1528. It is the first book entirely printed in Greek by Simon de Colines in "Sophocles type," ru s origina] GΓee k font. The eighth, dated Paris 1529, is a Colines R e ιιηίοη nι e ιn.b e ι ·s ση the steps ofth.e M e tropo lίtan Μιιseιιηι ίη Ne ~ v Υοι·k: (j'ront row) Co lίn Hasse, edition intended for school c hildΓen of Janί c e Gabbert; (back I'Ow) Dίι·ecto ι · Wίllίaιn F. "')ιatt, Janιes McCI'OI')', Marla Hίres , and lsoCI'ates ' orations Ad D emonίcun1 and Ad Dav ίd Β. Parshall. (Not pίcturec/ but present, Gίsela Rubsaιn en . ) Plι o to: Lίz a McCrory Nίco c l e n1 in Greek, followed by Nachtigall 's Latin version. The volume ends with a Wechel school edition of Summer Session Class Holds Reunion Isocrates' oration Ο η Peace, Paris I 529. Davίd Β . Parshall, an alumnιιs of the School's 1972 Sunυna Sessίon Ι, repo ι · ts on ίts twenty-fifth annίversary class ι ·e unίon. 1997 Season Seven participants in the 1972 ASCSA Gabbert gave an update on the School, co ntin ιι ed fronι page 8 Suιηmer Session Ι gatheΓed in New York assuring us that the ASCSA is thri ving. ο η October 11 , 1997, to celebrate the Α hi gh point of the day was a visit to the Ι would like to add here that, on Janu­ Ronιan ary 14, my wife and Ι were able to attend a twenty-fifth anniversary of our memorable Greek and section ofthe Metropoli­ tan Μιιseuιη , thanks to Met cuι-ator and 1ecture on Nemea delivered by Mr. MilleΓ experiences at the American School. It was (in Greek) at the National Museum in the fiΓst Schoo1 "reunion" ever oΓganized School alumna, Elizabeth J. Milleker. AnotheΓ highlight was Thiasos, a Greek Athens. This lecture covered the hi s totΎ of so far as anyone can remember and was archaeological work at Nemea, the di scov­ thoughtfully conceived by Jim McCrory. nightclub, wheΓe things were jιι s t getting ery and excavation of the stadium, the re­ We were particlll aτly honoΓed that our ιιndeΓ way when we aπived at midnight. construction ofthe starting gate mechanism immortal leadeΓ , Williaιη F. Wyatt, came Great bouzouki music ! Irresistible! It spoke (for which see John Noble Wilford, New from Providence for the afternoon. Colin out for danc ing, and we all obliged. lt Hasse and Jim McCrory brought s1ides brought us forward to the present but also York τίn1 es, December 7, 1993, p. C14) and the revival of the Nemean Games on June fωm 1972, providing pleasant remem­ reminded us of glorious days near the wine­ 1, 1996. It was a multimedia affai!' and a brances and amusement for all ofus. Janice dark sea twenty-five years ago. true touΓ de force on the part of a former Diiector of the School ( 1982-1987). ing of the final state plan of the entil'e struc­ in the Final Neolithic period. This period Messenia and the vicinity of Pylos saw ture. Many details in the arch itectuΓa l hi s­ (ofιιn certai n date but probably coνeΓing the two pΙΌject s in 1997, the Pylos Regional totΎ of the palace, not recorded by Mr. second half of the foul'th mi\lenniuιη B.C.) Archaeological Project (PRAP), dίrected by Blegen, have been un covered during the marks the fil'St settlement of the entire Bay Jack L. Davis of the University of Cincin­ course of these cleaning operations. On of Mirabello. Final Neolitruc pottery has nati (May 20 to Aιιgu s t 2) and the Minne­ September 15, aerial ptωtograph s of the en­ now been identified at Goumia, Pseira and sota Archaeological Researches in the tire complex were taken from a helicopter. Mochlos. The interested reader is directed Westem Peloponessos (MARWP), directed Space does not permit any real discus­ to the al'ticle by Lucia Vagnetti ( Cretan by Frederick Α. Cooper of the University sion of all the Aιηerican projects in opera­ Studίes, vol. 5 for 1996), who published the of Minnesota (June 22 to July 19; also tion on the island of Crete during the sum­ Final Neolithic remains from Phaistos and September 8-28 for aeria1 photography). mer of 1997. Study seasons were carried who fiΓst recognized that, in Near Eastern PRAP concentΓated on the elaboration of out at Gournia (L. Yance Watrous), Kavousi teπηs , the period should properly be cal led Carl W. Blegen's work at the Palace of (G. Gesell, W. Coulson, L. Day), Mochlos Cha\colithic. Nestor, both the pre-pa1atial period (extend­ (J. Soles) and VrokastJΌ (Β. Hayden and Work at Kommos by Joseph W. and ing back into late Early Helladic) and the J. Moody). In addition to their scholarly Maria Shaw on behalf of the University of end of the palatial period (with aπ investi­ work, excavators also moved out of theίr Toronto continιιed to combine excavation gation into the use of the palace ca. 1200 respective apothekes into the new INSTAP with ongoing work on final publication. B.C.). PRAP's work in Messenia has just East Crete Study Center during the sum­ Kommos IV: The Greek Sanctιιary is sched­ been published in Sandy Py los: An mer of 1997. ul ed to appear in the year 2000 and will be, Archaeologίcal Hίsto ry froιn Nestoι- to The Chrysokamino excavations (Philip according to the excavators, the most co ιη­ Navarίno (University of Texas Press, Ρ. Betancourt, Temple University) had their plete publication to date of a Greek sanc­ August 1998). second (and final) field season. Both the tuary in Ct·ete. Pl ans are also und e ι · way to MARWP finished cleaning the last paΓt metallurgical site and the Habitation Loca­ turn Κοιηm οs into an Archaeological PaΓk , of the palace, in pΓeparation for the draw- tion were shown to have their beginnings contin ιι eιl on page 19

17 undergraduate at Texas Tech, of An Index poΓation , Rockefeller University, the InMemoriam of Greek Verb Foπns (HjJdesheim 1970) Colonia1 Williamsburg Foundati on and with J. J. Bodoh. Her ot h e Γ two books are the Institute for Advanced Stιιdy. Sara Ellen Baνousett Aleshire: The Athenίan Asklepίeίon: Π1e People, Mr. Dilworth is survived by his wife, Th. eίr D edίcatίons and the I nventorίes E li zabeth , of Princeton, two sons and a Α Remembrance (A 111 sterdan1 1989) and Askleρίos at Α t/7- daughter. · The sιιdde11 death of Sara Β. Aleshire of ens: Epίgωphίc and Pωs opo g r aphίc a heart attack i11 Athe11s jιι st twe11ty days Essays on tl1 e Athenίan Hea lίng Cults short of heΓ fiftieth birthday i11 May 1997 (A ω s terdaω 199 1). She also published sev­ Theodora Stillwell MacKay caιηe as a teιτible loss to her ιηa 11 y fΓi e11ds e Γ a l important aι·ticle s, ωainly 011 Greek 1938-1998 and l1as left a hιι ge gap in the School com­ religion, prosopography, and in sαiption s. Π1LΙI1ity a11d abroad. Sara was a fam ili ar a11d At the time of her death she was at work Theodora Stillwell MacKay, whose beloved f i g ιιre aro ιιnd the Blege11 LibΓa ι Ύ, on "The Sacred Officials of Ancient Ath­ childhood playgrounds were the Corinth the computer ωο ιη , Lori11g Hall , and the ens," a 1arge project pulling together all the Excavations and the Schoo1 gaΓden , di ed School gaΓdel1. She was a prodιιc ti ve a11cient te s tiιηoni a on priests, priestesses, in Seattle, Washi11 gton, in January 1998. sc h o l aΓ of the first rank, a s ιιp erb editor, and other cult personnel. Ηe ι · fatheΓ , Rich aΓd Stillwell, author of lucid l ec tυι·eΓ, computer ex pe Γt , go uΓm e t In recent years, Sara added to her seνe Γal CoΓinth volumes, was active in the cook, and u11waveri11gly loyal frie11d . Ma11y acco ωpli s hment s the e ditoΓ s hip of the School fιΌΠΊ 1924 unti1 hi s death i11 1982, Members of the School will recall benefit­ series ΑΡΧΑΙΑ ΕΛΛΑΣ , which she initi­ serving, a111ong many otheΓ positions, as il1 g fιΌm these qualities, fο Γ she was also, ated with the pιιbli s her J. C. Gieben of Directo Γ of the School, Annual Pωfesso r , and always, ge n e ωu s with h e Γ tίιηe and her Amsterdam. Completed in that series are and Managing Com111ittee Member. Her ski ll s. She many times set aside her own works by W. Κ. Pritchett, Stephe11 Lambel't, mother, Agnes Newhall Stillwell, a Fellow woΓk to accompa11 y a s tυdent or co ll eag ιι e Jennifer Tobin, and Martha Taylor. of the School fron1 1927-32, was the exca­ to a site or to examine an in sCΓ ipti o n , and Sara began her association with the vator and publisher of the Po tt e Γ 's Quarter thro ug h t actf ιιl a11d pΓeci se editing, Schoo1 as a member of Alan L. Boegehold's of Corinth. she iιηpΙΌ νed ωuch sc h o l a Γ s hip . A t Summer Session of 1974, and renewed Theodora MacKay's association with the E pi g Γ ap hi ca l Museum a nd in the her affiliation as a Student Associate Mem­ Greece began at age eight when she accom­ Asklepieion, where she worked a11d gave ber in 1983. She retumed many times there­ pa11ied her parents to the Corinth Excava­ tal ks 0 11 the ιηateri a l she knew so well, she after as a Senior Associate Member. tiol1s. Α dozen yeaΓs later, afteι· taki11 g a is soΓe ly missed. So, too, i11 the coιηpιιter On June 1, 1997, a memorial gathering Β .Α. in Latin fron1 ΒιΎη Mawr College in ιΌοm, where she helped anyo11 e with a to ho11or Sara was held in the garden of the 1959, she joined the School as a RegulaΓ pωbl e ιη a11d do11ated ιηuch e qιιipιη e 11t and School. Many of her friends were present, Member in 1959- 60 and took part in the ιηιι c h expet'tise. In LoΓing Hall, her exoti c and many sent Γeιηembr a nces to be read Corinth excavation session that s pΓin g. The Sunday ni ght dinners fο Γ the whole School aloud. Αιηοη g the speakers were Sara's sessio11 was one of the fiΓst to focus seri­ cο ωωιιηίty reached legendary proportions. close friends, Dina Peppas-Delmouzou, ous attention on the mediaeval remains at Sara was born in Lubbock, Texas, and Molly Richardson, and Connie Stroud. Corinth, and the experience in s piΓed her to gradιιated with a Β.Α. in classics from the In accordance with her wishes, Sara's en1bark on a lifelong study of the ΠΊ ediae­ University of Cali fornia at B eΓke l ey i11 body was returned to Berkeley, Ca1ifornia, val pottery of Greece. 1970. FιΌιη BeΓkeley she was also g Γal1ted and her ashes were scattered in the Pacific Returning to Bryn Mawr i11 the doctoral an Μ .Α. d eg Γ ee in linguisti cs in 1974 and a Ocean. pro g Γ a ΠΊ i11 Latin, i11 1963 sl1e ιηaπied PI1 .D . in ancient history and M e diteιτan ea n Ma ry Β . Rί chardso n Pierre MacKay, a fellow student at the archaeology in 1986 with a di sse Γtati o l1 011 Ronald S. Stroud School in 1959-6 ι. The coup1e moved to the i11 sc Γiptio11s fιΌm the Sa11ctυ aσ of Seatt1e i11 1966 when ΜΓ. MacKay took a A sklepios on the South Slope of the pos itio11 in classics and ne aΓ eas teΓI1 Acropolis. She t a ιι g ht at Berkeley from ]. Richardson Dilworth languages at the Universi ty of Was hing­ 197 J-7 3 as a Teaching Assistant and held 1916-1997 ton. In the next few years she comp1eted Research Assistantships in lingui sti cs and her di ssertation, ' Όlba in Rough Cilicia," classics d uΓin g the following four years. In J. Rjchardson Dilworth, elected both to and the article, "More Byzantine and 1977 she began her long and fruitful the School 's Board of Trustees and the Frankish Pottery fron1 Corinth" ( Hesp e rίa association wi th the 11 ew!y revived BoaΓd 's Treasurer in 1980, was a Trustee 36, 1967, 249-320). Suppl e n1 e ntιιιn Epίgωp l1icum Graecum Ειηαίtιιs when he died i11 December 1997 In addition to her careeΓ as an aΓchae­ and fοΓ two decades as Assistant EditoΓ she at eighty-one. ologist, she became active i11 scholarly was in strumental in the steady pω g Γes s Bor11 i11 Hewlett, New York, Mr. publishing, first as associate editor and a11d ΓegulaΓ publication of this woΓk. In Dilworth was a resident ofPrinceton, New typesetter for the Middle East Studies 1992-93 Sa Γ a was a Fellow in th e School Jeι· sey . He received a Β.Α . from Yale Uni­ Association Bulletin, and later as founder of Hi sto ι· i ca l Studies of the I11 s titυte for versity in 1938, and a law degree in 1942. and president of HunΊ a ni st Typesetting Advanced Study in Princeton, and in 1996 Α senior financial adviser to the Rockefeller & Graphics. she was Watkins Fellow in the Center for family for twenty-three years until hi s re­ Her sc hol aΓ ly work continued thωu g h­ Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies tirement in 1981, he was Chairman of the out her life, and her last article, a survey of at Ohio State Uni versity. She was a frequent Board of Rockefell er CenteΓ from 1966 recent work on medi aeva1 pottery in s peake Γ at inte Γ11atio11al colloquia i11 Ath­ until 1982, ChaiΓmal1 of the Board of the Corinth, wi11 appear in the vo lunΊ e ΠΊark­ ens, GotheboΓg, Stockholm, Oxford, and Metropolitan Museum of An fιΌΠΊ 1983 to ing the I OOth anniversary of the ASCSA elsewhere. 1987, a member of the Council ο η Foreign excavatio11 s at Ancient Corinth.

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18 Virginia Lucas Nick 1916-1997 Longtime friend and supporter of the ASCSA, Virgirua Lucas Nick died in Dal­ \as in December 1997, just short of her eighty-first birthday. For more than fifty years, Mrs. Nick woΓked to support the arts in Dallas, build the city's reputation as an international economic and cultural center, and promote the heritage of Greece, the homeland of her parents, Faithon Panteli and Mersina Togani Lucas. She was co­ founder of the Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage in Washington, D.C., and was responsible for the restoration of several historic sites in Greece, including a house on Tripodon Street in the Plaka that contains the offices of Elliniki Etairia and the Center for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development.

~ The Gennadeίon under const ru. ctίo n , ca. 1925. The cιιrrent renovatίons a.refocused on the centra.l Arthur Μ. Young portίon ofthe original bιιildίng whίclι has renι. a.ined basically untouchecl since ίι was conψleted 1900-1998 ίn 1926. Plιoto courtesy ofth.e ASCSA Archίves Renovations Μ . Subsequently, they named Catherine deG. Arthur Young, Managing Comrrut­ co ntinuedfronι ρage 1 tee Member Emerίtus, from the University Vanderpool as President, a newly estab­ ofPittsburgh, died in January 1998. He first the Graves fum drew up a preliminary plan, lished staff position with the primary re­ came to the School as a Member in 1928- presented to the Trustees in 1994. It showed sponsibility of spearheading the fundiaising 29, represented the University ofPittsburgh that the Library needed extensive work, diive and putting the Library in a position from 1947 until his retirement, and retumed both outside and in, to create a safe and to carry out its ambitious plans to renovate to Athens as Annual Professor in 1957-58. suitable physical environment for the col­ and, peihaps someday, expand. lections and for the readers. It also pointed The Gennadeion Board, which includes out possible areas of expansion to increase members of the American and Greek busi­ stack space and create more exhibition and ness communities as well as representatives 1997 Season public areas. from the Schoo\'s Managing Committee, con ιin ued froιn ρage 17 In order to help stabilize the Library's applied itself to mapping out a vision of making the site more accessible to visitors. financial situation and to raise money for the the Library's futu!'e. In October 1995, The work at Kommos is but a response coming renovations, the School's Trustees Byzantinist and architect Haris Kalligas to the new demands being made upon all established a separate Board of Trustees for took over as Director of the Library. Among archaeological sites in Greece, and, to meet the Library, which was formed in the spring her primary tasks was to review the reno­ these challenges, emphasis is now being put of 1995 with Lloyd Ε. Cotsen as Chairman. vation plans already in hand and to select upon site conservation and management. an architectural firm to take on the project. Those who have not been to Κnossos for William Bell Dinsmoor, writing in Of the five initially approached, that of several years are in for a big surprise when Art and Archaeolog1' in 1924, sums up Ioannis Vikellas was selected. they go, for the site has been completely the meaning of the Gennadius Library's The project Γeceived an essential boost redesigned in order to accommodate the oήginal plan: 'Ίη order to be symbolic in early 1997, when the Library received a more than one rrύllion visitors who come of the monumental purpose of the bui1d­ $625,000 Challenge Gι· a nt from the there every year. The latest issue of the new ing, a bond between the scholarship of National Endowment for the Humanities. journal Conservation and Managenιent of Ameήca and of Greece as well as an Thanks to the energy and dedication of Archaeological Sites (vol. 2, part 2) includes adjunct of a School of Classical Stud­ Gennadeion Trustees in Greece and the a report on the York Conference devoted ies, the style of the building could hardly United States, the Library is close to com­ to "Conservation and Reconstruction at the be other than classical Greek, with a col­ pleting the four-to-one match. As of July 1 Palace of Minos at Knossos." The Getty onnaded fa~ade; and for this purpose the of this year, $2. 1 of the $2.5 rrύllion had Conservation Institute has just published lonic order seemed more gracious than been raised in cash and pledges. Just over The Conservation of Archaeological Sites the Doήc ... The whole composition is a half of the grant and matching funds, or in tlι e Medίterranean Region, edited by timely reflection of the School's great $1.7 mil\ion, will go to the building project, Marta de la Torre. All of this reflects the book on the Erechtheum [published in while $1 .1 rrύl\ion is earmarked fοΓ endow­ growing awareness of the importance of site 1929] ... The Ionic columns of the ment and $223,000 for preservation and conservation in Greece. Future issues of Gennadeion are modeled after those access. With the ΝΕΗ grant in hand and this Newsletteι- will contain reports on plans employed on the east fa~ade of the with fundraising moving apace, over a year for the Archaeological Park of Athens, Erechtheum, but slightly larger scale." ahead of schedule, the Trustees have given scheduled to be completed in 2004. the go-ahead to begin work.

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ASCSA Trustee William Kelly Simpson, ASCSA Trustee Marianne McDonald, Professor ofEgyptology at Yale U ni νeΓsity, ASCSA Hosts 2nd founder of the Π1esa uΓus Lίng uae GΓaecae who served as President and then Chair­ and the recipi ent of over a dozen awards man ofthe School's Bo aΓd ofTrι ι s tees fωm "Sea Cloud" Voyage from uni versities and goveι · nment agencies J 97 1 to 1990, was honored by the Ameri­ In 1999, the ASCSA is again host­ in Greece, was recentl y awarded an honoι · ­ can Rese aΓch Ce nte ι · in Egypt (ARCE) and ing "Gods, Heroes and the Glory of atΎ doctoΓate by the English and Literature its Fiftieth An ni veΓsary Gala Committee at Greece" aboard the Sea Cloud, the larg­ Department of the University of Thessa­ AnniνeΓSa Γy Lec tuΓe loniki. In presenting th e award, Dean the ARCE Slide and est pΓivate sailing vessel eνeΓ built. The Awa ι ·d CeΓe ιη o n y held at the MetΓopolitan voyage is preceded by two days on land Mihalis Papadopoulos pointed out that it Μι-. h o noΓed not only Ms. McDonald, but also Museum of Art on May 16. Simpson in Ku~adasi, Turkey, with visits to was presented a special ARCE Di stin­ Priene and Ephesus. On August 28, Sea drama and literatιιre as a whole, di sciplines g ιιi s hed Ach ievement AwaΓd for hi s con­ Cloud sets sail from the harbor at to which she has contributed abundantly tΓibι ι tion Stιιdi es. ονe Γ many years. to Egypti an Ku~adasi and travels along the Turkish ~ coast to Pergamum and Troy, then on ~ Winner of the A merican Hi storical to the Aegean islands ofThasos, Skyros, George L. Huxley, Member-at-large ofthe Association's 1993 H erb e Γt Feis Award, and Delos, and finally to Athens on ASCSA Managing Committee and Direc­ Atl1enίan Econom)' and So c ί e ty : Α Bankίng September 4. tor ofthe the Gennadius Library from 1986 P e ι ·spec tί ve , by τι-u s tee/ c l ass i ca l scholar/ Accompanying the voyagers will be to 1989, served as a Vice President of the law ye Γ/bu s in ess man Edward Ε. Cohen, John ΜcΚ. Camp Π, Director of the Royal llΆi s h Academy in Dublin during their first pιιbli s hed in 1992, was released in School's Agora Excavations, who pro­ 1997-98 year. p a pe Γback ί η 1997 . Thomas J. Figueira, vided insights into life in the Athenian ~ ASCSA 1975-76, had hi gh praise for Agora for members of the 1998 Sea The Cypωs American AlΈc haeolog ical Re­ ΜΓ. Cohen when he reviewed the book in C/oud trip led by then Managing Com­ search Institute (CAARI) in Nicosia, BΓy n Μαw ι · Cla ss ί ca l R e vίew: "Cohen mittee Chairman Alan L. Boegehold. Cyprus, held the international conference, e ιηb od i es a Γole of traditional relevance in For further information contact Jim ' Έngendering Aphrodite: Women and Γesearc h on classical antiquity, bιιt one that Lamont, Kalos Tours, Inc., Tel: (919) Society in Ancient Cyprus" in Nicosia from is inCΓeasingly a r a Γit y : he is 'a man of af­ 489-5880; Fax: (919) 490-5719. M arch 19-23. Organized by CAARI fa iΓ s ' who bΓing s hi s pΓac ti cal, pωfe ss ion a l Director Nancy Serwint, ASCSA Hirsch experience to bear on his historical research." ~ Fellow 1985-86, and Diane Bolger, Lec­ ~ Managing Committee Member Thomas G. turer, University of MaΓyland ( EuiΌpean Π1e Age ofJu stίn ί an, The CίΓcum s tances oj' Palaima, ASCSA 1976-77 and 1979-80, Di vision) in Heidelberg, G eΓman y, the con­ Inψeι-ίal Poweι-(London : Roιιtled ge, 1966), University of Texas at Austin, was ap­ ference opened with a photographic eκhibit , by Managing Comnιittee Me mb eΓ Εη1eΓί­ pointed research fellow in the Department ' Ίm ages of Women in Ancient Cyprus," tιιs and 1998-99 Whitehead Pωfesso Γ of Archaeology and Ancient History at the followed by three days of papers presented J.A.S. Evans, Uni versity of BΓiti s h University of Uppsala for May 1998 with by thirty-five scholars, and closed with a Columbia, is being pιιbli s h ed thi s year in a g Γant fωm the Foundation GunνoΓ och panel di scussion, 'Έquity Issues in Archae­ Greek translation by Odysseas PΓess , Athens. Josef Aneers Stiftelse. ology Today."

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