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Winter 2002 No NEWSLETTER OF THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS ákákoueWinteroue 2002, No. 47 Reused material, including this fragment, was used to construct the Byzantine house walls excavated at the northwest section of the Photo: Craig Mauzy Agora. See page 5 for story. IN THIS ISSUE: Stephen Tracy Appointed School Director 3 Brendan Burke Reflects on Term 3 Student Reports: Macedonian Social History; Medieval Morea; Corinth Fountains 4 Agora Excavations 5 Summer Sessions Review 7 Wiener Lab Reports: Franchthi Cave; Dye Extraction; Aristotle’s Goby; Sex Determination of Skeletons 9 Lecture Series Schedule 14 Male Maturation Rituals 15 School Pioneer Profiled 15 Remembrances of Dorothy Burr Thompson 17 In Memoriam: WDE Coulson 18 INSERT: Gennadeion Groundbreaking Phase II G1 Rare Volume Acquired G1 Schliemann Papers G2 Clean Monday Celebration Planned G3 Photographic Archive G3 Philoi Activities G4 A New Look for the Newsletter Among archaeologists, histo- letter, which continued to record the evolu- rians, and classicists, 25 years tion not only of the School but also of the may not seem like a long field of classics and archaeology. time, but in the world of Upon Doreen’s retirement from the Board design, it’s an eternity. in 1996, her fellow Trustees honored her Therefore, as the Newslet- with the establishment of an endowment ter enters its 25th year of fund for the Newsletter so that it could con- publication, we have given tinue to do what she had done so energeti- ákoue! it a new look, one that we cally in her years as President: spread the hope will continue to do news of the School’s achievements. During justice to the diverse Doreen’s editorship, the Newsletter intro- achievements and ac- duced a feature called ákoue!, to call atten- tivities it documents. tion to a particular article or editorial. That Launched in 1977 name has now been incorporated into the by then-President of Newsletter’s nameplate on an illustrated the Board of Trustees, cover page that will also feature a table of Elizabeth A. White- contents. The inner pages are redesigned as head, the Newsletter well, to make text more readable and to al- aimed to keep mem- low more flexibility with photographs. bers of the School ákoue! — The Newsletter will continue the family abreast of tradition set by Betsy Whitehead and Doreen the work of the School, in its Spitzer, bringing to its readers the vibrancy many facets. Her successor in 1983 as Presi- and variety of scholarship and life at the Our first issue dent, Doreen Canaday Spitzer, assumed at School. e in 1977 the same time the editorship of the News- — The Editor From Syracuse to Manhattan The terrible events of September 11 truly knew no international boundaries, as doz- ens of nations suffered the loss of citizens and countless individuals mourned for friends AMERICAN SCHOOL OF and strangers alike. David Gill (University CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS of Wales), who had arrived in Athens that 54 Souidias Street, GR-106 76 Athens, Greece afternoon to do work in the School’s Ar- 6–8 Charlton Street, Princeton, NJ 08540-5232 chives, found himself standing outside the NEWSLETTER School, struggling to absorb the magnitude Winter 2002 No. 47 of the news that greeted him. His poem, re- Executive Editor produced here, articulates the timelessness Catherine deG. Vanderpool of tragedy. Editorial Associate Sally Fay Whispered words “It can’t be true” Editorial Assistant “All of them?” Evi Sikla They gather below the sacred stones Design & Production And weep at the Sicilian news. Mary Jane Gavenda The Newsletter is published semiannually Ashen faces by the ASCSA under the inspiration of “We can’t go on” Doreen C. Spitzer, Trustee Emerita. Please “What’s the point?” address all correspondence and inquiries to the Newsletter Editor, ASCSA U.S. Office, Satellite dishes line the ancient streets 6–8 Charlton Street, Princeton, NJ 08540- While orange flames lick the screen. 5232. Tel: (609) 683-0800; Fax: (609) 924- Photo courtesy ArtToday 0578; Website: www.ascsa.edu.gr; E-mail: A view gone but not forgotten. [email protected]. 2 Tracy Appointed School Director At its May meeting, the ASCSA Managing (Princeton University Press, 1990). Mr. Tracy Committee appointed Stephen V. Tracy as Di- was co-author (with J. Bodel) of Greek and rector of the School for a five-year term. Mr. Latin Inscriptions in the USA: A Checklist Tracy succeeds current School Director (American Academy in Rome, 1997) and co- James D. Muhly, whose term expires June 30, editor of Studies Presented to Sterling Dow on 2002. his Eightieth Birthday, Greek, Roman, and “The School is a marvelously successful Byzantine Monograph 10 (Durham, 1984). academic enterprise, and I am honored to be His latest book, Athens and Macedon: Attic elected to serve as the next Director,” Mr. Letter-Cutters of 300 to 229 B.C., is forthcom- Tracy said of his appointment. “Changing ing from the University of California Press. times and changing international conditions Mr. Tracy is a life member of the Ameri- present us with interesting challenges and can Philological Association and a corre- opportunities, to which I look forward. It will sponding member of the Deutsches archäo- Photo: Marie Mauzy be a particular pleasure logisches Institut, Berlin. for me to work with the He has held fellowships School’s First outstanding students and grants from the Na- Assistant Professor who attend the School tional Endowment for each year.” the Humanities, Ameri- Concludes His Term Mr. Tracy, who holds can Council of Learned In Fall 2000, the School appointed Brendan a B.A. in Latin and Societies, Archaeological Burke to a newly created position: Assistant Greek from Brown Uni- Institute of America, the Professor of Classical Studies. As his two-year versity and an M.A. and Institute for Advanced term winds down, he takes stock of the enhance- Ph.D. in classical phi- Study, the Packard Hu- ments to School programs and services made lology from Harvard manities Institute, the possible by the new position, and examines its University, first visited National Science Foun- effect on his own scholarship. Greece as a Harvard dation, the Gladys Krieble Traveling Fellow in Delmas Foundation, and Over the last year and a half, as I have served 1965. His association the Ford, Mellon, and as the first Assistant Professor of Classical with the School began Woodrow Wilson Foun- Studies at the American School, I have had in 1966–67, when he dations. He is currently the unique opportunity to work with some wrote his dissertation, part of an international of the brightest graduate students from some “A Letter-Cutter of Photo courtesy Ohio State University team of scholars who, in of the best programs in Classics, Art History, Classical Athens,” at cooperation with the Ber- and Archaeology. I have also been fortunate the School under a grant from the Woodrow lin Academy, are preparing a new edition of enough to have truly inspiring and dedicated Wilson Foundation. A member of the Man- Inscriptiones Graecae volumes II–III, the in- colleagues, from the visiting professors at the aging Committee since 1974 and Chair since scriptions of Attica subsequent to the year School to the permanent members of the 1998, Mr. Tracy has also been a Summer 404 B.C. teaching staff. My position has been at times Session director, Senior Research Fellow Mr. Tracy is Director of the Center for challenging but also a highly rewarding ex- (Visiting Professor), Chair of the Commit- Epigraphical Studies at Ohio State Univer- perience. tee on the Summer Sessions and the Com- sity, where he is Professor of Greek and Latin At the start of the 2000–2001 academic mittee on Publications, member of the Com- and Adjunct Professor of Ancient History. year the teaching program of the School had mittee on Committees, and both an elected His wife, June W. Allison, also a Profes- to adjust to the additional position of the As- and ex officio member of the Executive sor of Greek and Latin at Ohio State, is a very sistant Professor. Merle Langdon, the Mellon Committee. popular teacher who has also published a Professor, made every effort to welcome me Mr. Tracy’s scholarly work includes sev- number of articles on literary subjects. Her and was very accommodating to my teach- eral books and book chapters, as well as a most recent book, Word and Concept in ing and research interests. Together with large number of articles on epigraphical, his- Thucydides (Scholars Press, Atlanta), was Corinth Excavation Director Guy Sanders, torical, and literary subjects. He has pub- published in 1997. e the three of us have worked out a program lished four books related to epigraphy—The for the four Fall trips which has room for Lettering of an Athenian Mason, Hesperia contributions by members of the teaching Supplement XV (Princeton, 1975), IG II2 staff but also gives each of the trip leaders a 2336, Contributors of First Fruits for the Rhys F. Townsend has been named to suc- fair degree of autonomy. We all agree that Pythaïs (Meisenheim, 1982), Attic Letter- ceed Stephen V. Tracy as Chair of the Man- leading trips is like teaching a course, and Cutters of 229 to 86 B.C. (University of Cali- aging Committee, effective July 1. we employ our own pedagogical methods. fornia Press, 1995), and Athenian Democracy Mr. Townsend is Associate Professor of Our curriculum proved successful last year in Transition: Attic Letter-Cutters of 340 to 290 Art History at Clark University, where he and we have basically kept with the same B.C. (University of California Press, 1995) has taught since 1982.
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