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FROM THE ARCHIVES Author Vangelis Raptopoulos Donates Papers

haracterized as “the most creative, the most Cpassionate writer of his generation,” Vangelis Raptopou- los is the first author from the 1980s literary generation who has trusted a significant part of his personal archive (“thirty years of creation,” as he said) to the Archives of the Gennadius Library. We are grateful to him for his generous decision. Vangelis Raptopoulos, born in 1959, is considered to be the pioneer of the “1980s genera- tion.” He first published in 1979 (In Pieces or Κομματάκια), when he was only 20 years old, and established himself as one of Greece’s most promising authors. Exhibition of Early American Archaeological His next two publications, Toll Gates or Διόδια (1982) and The Photographs Debuts at Library Cicadas or Τα τζιτζίκια, com- pleted a trilogy-team portrait of he archaeological pho- The exhibit situates the photo- The Hittite shrine of Eflatunpinar his generation. The Cicadas also tographs of John Henry graphic exploration of Anatolia (‘Plato’s Spring’), near Lake came out in English. To date, THaynes (1849–1910), within the context of the grow- Beys¸ehir in central Anatolia the father of American archaeo- ing American cultural presence (1884 –1887). continued on page G4 logical photography, are being in the eastern Mediterranean Photograph by Haynes, Harvard University, Aga Khan Archive exhibited in the Basil Room of marked by the foundation of the the Gennadius Library from ASCSA in 1881; it concludes November 27, 2012 to January with the excavations of Colo- Ousterhout of the University of 20, 2013 under the title “Pictur- phon and Sardis in 1921–22, Pennsylvania. Other speakers ing Anatolia: The Photographs of showcasing important material at the colloquium were Stavros John Henry Haynes.” All but un- from the ASCSA Archives. Anestidis of the Centre for Asia known today, Haynes served as The exhibition is curated by Minor Studies, Anna Ballian of photographer for the American Robert Ousterhout and Maria the Benaki Museum, Jack Davis excavations at Assos (1881–83) Georgopoulou, with the support of the University of Cincinnati, and at Nippur in Mesopotamia of Ioli Vingopoulou and Natalia historian Ioanna Petropoulou, (1889–1900). In 1884 and 1887 Vogeikoff-Brogan. An afternoon Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan of the he traveled across Asia Minor colloquium in Cotsen Hall in- ASCSA, Gennadeion Director with a camera, photographing troduced the exhibition to the Maria Georgopoulou, and Yian- Vangelis Raptopoulos historical and archaeological public, culminating in a keynote nis Papadopoulos of Panteion sites, many for the first time. address delivered by Robert University. e G2 G E N N A D E I O N N E W S

Samourka Maps in Three Fellows at the Gennadeion Dimensions any fellows are mak- The second Papaioannou digital presentation that Research Foundation intro- ing use of the Gen- Fellow at the Gennadeion, Dr. enlivens the old maps duced the project and Maria Mnadeion this academic Vaios Kalogrias, will be using of the collection of Mar- Konstantoglou of the University year and have presented their the Papaioannou papers from A research in work-in-progress the Gennadius Archives for his garita Samourka made headlines of the Aegean, head of the team in the Greek press and attracted that put together this imagina- seminars. study: “Mihailovic-Zervas: A large crowds at the National tive endeavor, presented this Stefania Costache, a Ph.D. Comparative Study of Resis- Hellenic Research Foundation unique technical achievement candidate at the University of tance and Collaboration in Ser- on November 5, 2012. George developed at the Samourkas Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, bia and Greece (1941–1944).” Tolias of the National Hellenic Map Collection. e is the Alison Frantz Fellow for A fellow of the American 2012–13. She is researching Research Center in Sofia, Dr. nineteenth-century political his- Svetoslav Ribolov, Associate tory and is completing a project Professor at the Department of entitled “Men for All Seasons: Theology at Sofia University, Diplomacy, Government and spent the summer and early fall European Enterprises in the of 2012 studying eighteenth- Ottoman Empire, Romania and century Orthodox theology. Greece, 1830–1880.” Associate Member James In October, Cotsen Travel- Rodriguez, a Ph.D. candidate ing Fellow Dr. Pantelis Golitsis from Yale University, has been of the Freie Universität Berlin using the Gennadius collections studied one of the Library’s for his dissertation research on Invitation to 3-D maps. Coasts of Syros from the map of Choiseul- philosophical manuscripts on bilateral Byzantine icons of the Gouffier (1782) Aristotelian logic, MS 43. Palaiologan period. e

From the Librarian

everal new acquisitions by his son and grandson: Henri ddd have been added to the Estienne, Concordantiae Grae- In June 2012 Senior Librarian SGennadius Library collec- colatinae… [Geneva] 1600; and Irini Solomonidi was invited to tion. Twenty-five volumes of the the Greek translation of John visit the Centre du Conserva- rare periodical Ο αστήρ της Ανα- Bunyan’s famous 1678 work, tion du Livre in Arles, France, τολής were donated by the Greek The Pilgrim’s Progress, printed in specializing in the conservation Historical Evangelical Archive to 1824 by the American Printing of paper and bookbindings. complement a similar donation House of Malta. During her visit, she had the by the Philoi from last year. More rare items were ac- opportunity to explore first- We bought the first book quired in auction: a school book hand the latest techniques the printed in America from Greek by Vassilios Papaefthymiou pub- Centre uses in the conservation type, Xenophon’s De Cyri In- lished in 1949, titled Το σχολείο of books, manuscripts, and stitutione, libri octo, printed in μας γιορτάζει; an album about archives. The Centre undertakes Philadelphia in 1806; a rare the Balkan Wars published in the conservation and digitiza- concordance to the Greek New 1914 in Athens; a karamanlı tion of manuscripts, books, Testament begun by Robert Esti- book by Perry de Forest, titled and archives of various institu- enne and completed and printed Σηχχέτιν Σήρρη, published in tions, creating an e-corpus, a Galata in 1912; and a typewrit- collective digital library that ten 1952 article by Stratis Myri- Xenophon, De Cyri Institutione, Gennadeion News pages are compiled catalogues and disseminates by Gennadius Library Director Maria vilis signed in his own hand. numerous documents, such as libri octo (Philadelphia, 1806) Georgopoulou, Senior Librarian Irini The Akolouthies collection manuscripts, archives, books, Solomonidi, Administrative Assistant of Dory Papastratou arrived in journals, prints, audio record- Plano, Texas, photographed six Maria Smali, and Archivist Natalia the Library in the summer. It is ings, and video. Vogeikoff-Brogan, and edited by now stored at the balcony of the of our New Testament manu- Sally Fay. ddd Gennadius Reading Room. Full scripts, which are now available This publication is produced semi­ online access to this collection Also in June, a team from the for browsing on their website annually. E-mail correspondence for is being projected for December Center for the Study of New (http://www.csntm.org/manu- Gennadeion News to [email protected]. e 2012. Testament Manuscripts in script) and on our server. G E N N A D E I O N N E W S G3

Walton Lecture About 1453 Upcoming Lectures & Exhibitions

olly Greene (Prince­ began. The date is problem­ he Third Annual Samour­ Philosophy at the Court of ton University) deliv­ atic because the Ottomans had kas Lecture on Cartogra­ Mehmed II” (May 29, 2013). ered the 32nd Annual firmly established themselves in phy is scheduled for Feb­ M T In addition to the Cotsen Se­ Walton Lecture, entitled “1453: Thessaly in the later fourteenth ruary 26, 2013. Artemis Skoutari ries, Maria Georgopoulou, Direc­ How Important was it?” She century and the process of Ot­ will deliver a lecture on the tor of the Gennadius Library, will reflected on the significance of tomanization of the cities lasted Ptolemaic Maps of the Samourka speak on “John Gennadius and the capture of Constantinople until the sixteenth century. Her Collection. Several of these maps the Fine Arts” on February 20, in 1453 as the moment when lively lecture attracted large will be exhibited in Cotsen Hall. 2013, on the occasion of the Day the Byzantine Empire came to crowds in Cotsen Hall. e ddd of Joannes Gennadius, celebrated an end and the Ottoman Empire The generosity of Lloyd E. Cot­ by the Philoi of the Library. sen and Margit Sperling Cotsen ddd has funded another year of im­ Thanks to Gennadeion Overseer portant lectures in the Cotsen Alexandra Vovolini, an exhibi­ Lecture Series: tion on the archive of journalist • George Mavrogordatos of and politician Constantine A. the University of Athens and Vovolinis will explore the value Ayhan T. Aktar of Istanbul of the archive for the social and Bilgi University will discuss political history of twentieth- “The 1923 Exchange of Popu­ century Greece. Vovolinis col­ lations. An Ongoing Debate” lected data on people active in (January 15, 2013). Greek public life for his Great Greek Biographical Dictionary. • Annemarie Weyl Carr, Emerita Political scientist Stathis Kalyvas Professor of Byzantine Art at of Yale University, economic his­ Southern Methodist Univer­ torian Kostas Kostis of the Uni­ sity, will talk on “St. Luke and versity of Athens, and journalist The invitation to the lecture featured a map of Constantinople by the Icon of the Virgin Kykko­ Antonis Papagiannidis will mark Braun & Hogenberg (1577) and a portrait of Mehmet II, attributed to tissa in Cyprus” (April 2, 2013). Gentile Bellini (1480). the opening of the exhibition • Historian Maria Mavroudi of with a discussion on “Business the University of California, and Intellectuals, 1920–1960” Berkeley, will speak on “Greek (March 11, 2013). e Demos Fellow Catalogues the Venezis Papers Elytis Artwork Travels to Andros hanks to the generosity ollowing the major of the Demos Founda­ success of the exhibit tion, the 2012 Demos T about poet Odysseus Fellow, Dr. Demetra Papakon­ F Elytis organized by the Vasilis stantinou, processed and cata­ and Marina Theocharakis logued the papers of novelist Foundation in the fall of Elias Venezis. An accomplished 2011, the School loaned, in archaeologist, Papakonstantinou early June, to the Vasilis and previously held the position of Elisa Goulandris Museum of curator in the Department of Contemporary Art at Andros Information Technology at the a small number of watercol­ Benaki Museum. She catalogued ors and collages by Odysseus some 1,500 letters of Greek and Elytis for an exhibit entitled foreign correspondents from Approaching Surrealism. The the years 1930–1964 and has loaned items included At the moved on to the correspon­ Piano (1977), The Angel of dence for the years 1972–1974. Aeolian Earth, first page Astypalea (1966), Figure of Odysseus Elytis, The catalogue of the correspon­ Victory (Flying) (1969), and Figure of Victory (Flying) dence will become available on the Venezis Archive is set in other works. [1969] the ASCSA website in March Cotsen Hall for April 9, 2013. e 2013 and the presentation of G4 G E N N A D E I O N N E W S

Papaioannou’s Papers Presented in Cotsen Hall

arge crowds filled Cotsen Hall on May 16 to cel­ Save the Date! Lebrate the completion of On March 18, 2013, the Library the cataloguing of the papers will celebrate Clean Monday in of Georgios Papaioannou that New York City. Contact jgoble@ came to the Archives in 2010. ascsa.org for more information. Stathis Kalyvas of Yale Uni­ Mark your calendars! versity, Georgios Antoniou of the International University of Greece, and Alexis Malliaris of the American School of Classi­ Overseers Travel cal Studies joined Papaioannou’s to Malta daughter, Mrs. Nadia Tzevelek­ ou, to present various aspects of bout thirty Gennadeion the collection and its research Overseers and friends value for the history of WWII in spent four glorious days Greece, the Civil War, and post­ A From left to right: Panagiotis D. Tzevelekos, Maria Georgopoulou, in Malta in June 2012. Originally war Greece. Stathis Kalyvas, Georgios Antoniou, Nadia Tzevelekou, and Natalia led to the island because of the A doctor by training and a Vogeikoff-Brogan. several years that John Genna­ member of the Greek parliament dius spent there as a schoolboy, since 1933, Georgios Papaio­ the group explored the rich annou (1900–1986) was the Patsiou, Demetra Papaioannou, was awarded to historian Vaios Neolithic archaeological sites leader of the Trichonis subdivi­ and Nadia Tzevelekou donated Kalogrias. Finally, the catalogue and caves as well as the three sion of EDES (the prefecture of the papers to the Gennadius and of the archive processed by cities of the Knights of Malta, all Trichonis is located in the area also established a fellowship to historians Alexis Malliaris and with good cheer, great food, and of Aetoloacarnania). After the facilitate research on their fa­ Vasilis Spanos is available on the delightful company. e end of the Greek Civil War, he ther’s papers. Georgios Antoniou School’s website (http://www. served as mayor of Agrinion was the recipient of the inaugu­ ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/archives/ and member of the Greek Par­ ral Papaioannou Fellowship in george-papaioannou-papers- liament. His daughters Olga 2011–12; this year’s fellowship catalogue). e Raptopoulos Papers continued from page G1

Raptopoulos has published 20 books, including The Incred- Philoi Events Scheduled for 2012–13 ible Story of Pope Joan (2000), a medieval novel about the only Various activities in Athens woman in history that became are planned for 2012–13 by a pope (inspired by Emmanuel the Association of the Philoi Rhoides’ Pope Joan [Πάπισσα Ιω- of the Gennadius Library, άννα], written in 1866); My Own including visits to the Nikos America or Η δική μου Αμερική Hadjikyriakos-Ghika Gallery (2002), detailing his “journey” of the Benaki Museum and the to contemporary American pulp Art of Bookbinding Exhibition literature; and The Great Sand of the Byzantine and Christian or Η Μεγάλη Άμμος (2007), Museum. a novel about a Greece that is In May, the Day of Flor­ disappearing and changing. The ence/Anthi Gennadius will be Bachelor or Ο Εργένης (1993) celebrated with the Sixth An­ was adapted for Greek cinema, nual Bookfair in the gardens and Toll Gates for television. His of the Gennadius Library. twenty-fourth book, entitled Η A full schedule of Philoi πιο κρυφή πληγή, a love story events can be found on the during the civil war of December website at http://www.ascsa. The Fall Bookfair, held on October 20, brought large crowds to the gardens of the Gennadius Library, and its great success boosted the 1944, has just been published by edu.gr/index.php/gennadius/ Ikaros Editions. e friends-of-the-gennadeion. spirits of the Philoi.