American School of Classical Newsetter Studies at Athens Summer1984

80th Birthday Party for Sterling Dow

On January 17, 1984, friends and former students of Sterling Dow gathered at the Tavern Club in Boston to celebrate his 80th birthday. Before the cocktail hour, Dow gave a lecture on Homer relating mainly to the authorship of the Odyssey. In part the an­ swer to the question was determined on the basis of the extent of Homer's knowl­ edge. To suggest the range of that knowl­ edge, Dow produced the skull of a horse, demonstrating persuasively that there is an opening, precisely where Homer said it was, through which an arrow could have entered the brain of Nestor's horse in Book VIII of the Iliad. •struck at the point of the head, where the utmost hairs of horses are grown along the skull, and which is a place most mortal," (R. Lattimore trans.). During cocktails (including ouzo!), Dow received a telephone call from an octet of well-wishers in Athens. A large Greek goat-bell summoned the company up to dinner, where their teacher presented his Sterling Dow with two of his former students, Hunter Lewis and Jim McCredie Ph.D.'s with gold-plated replicas of the Vapheio cups. After dinner, there were speeches by structive, effective giant, initiating or sup­ Doreen C. Spitzer on behalf of the Trust­ porting creative and positive projects, al­ ees; James R. McCredie, a former Dow stu­ ways four-square and honest, always dent, for the Managing Committee; Emily thoughtful and outspoken.· William T. T. Vermeule on behalf of the Archaeolog­ Loomis, Secretary of the Trustees and for­ ical Institute of America, of which Dow is mer student, who spoke eloquently about Honorary President; Leslie Threatte for Dow's beneficent and stimulating influ­ the committee of former students who or­ ence on his students and read a number of ganized the Festschrift supplement to congratulatory messages, including a letter Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies in from W. French Anderson and a poem by Dow's honor; Kent J. Rigsby, editor of Alan L. Boegehold. Dow's response was, GRBS. William M. Calder III read a poem as expected, amusing and enlightening. composed for the occasion in Attic Greek Among the more than 70 celebrants were elegiacs by G. L. Huxley. Zeph Stewart, Constantina Peppas-Delmousou, Director speaking on behalf of former colleagues at of the Epigraphical Museum in Athens, Harvard, where Dow is Hudson Professor and Hunter Lewis, another former student of Archaeology, Emeritus, remarked *If to who is now a trustee and Treasurer of the be a 'good colleague' is to. be one who is School. meek and quiet, always votes with the ma­ Dow first came to the School in 1931 jority, never imposes on others by stand­ and stayed for five years. During these ing up for his own interests and his own .years, he began the study of inscribed ste- students. I can assure you that Sterling was Continued on page 11 C. Peppas-Delmousou not a 'good colleague'. He was_th~ con-

( Published by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens ~ Trustees Host Luncheon at Mayer House and Mrs. Manuel Kulukundis, Mr. and Mrs. Dimitri Manthos, Joseph V. Noble, Dr. Preview of Paris-Rome-Athens and Mrs. Arthur M. Sackler, Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Stahl, Malcolm Wiener and Russell The exhibition of Drawings of Classical Wilkinson. Veronique Rabin-Legall and Greek Architecture from the Ecole des Beaux Fran~ois Wehrlin, Director of the Beaux Arts, on view at the IBM Gallery of Science Arts, were also present. and Art in New York during February and The paintings and drawings in the ex­ March, provided an opportunity, gracious­ hibition were done by winners of the cov­ ly accorded by Mr. Eugene Fairfield of the eted Prix de Rome, starting in 1845 when IBM Corporation, for the Trustees to en­ they were permitted to go to Greece and tertain special friends of the School. Mayer further east; their assignment or ·envoi" House drawing room featured our own was to depict the major classical sites as #mini-exhibit" of architectural drawings by they found them, and then to reconstruct Gorham P. Stevens, of monuments in Cor­ them on paper. Many of the paintings are inth and on the Acropolis, and of the Pal­ in color and of monumental scale. As ace of Nestor at Pylos by Piet de Jong, and Trustee Vice-president Robert A. McCabe by Edward Tilton, of the Argive Heraion, said, MWe know of no works which so suc­ as well as photographs of the School's re­ cessfully evoke the splendor of ancient construction of the Stoa of Attalos in the Greece as these." Athenian Agora. Guests at the luncheon A magnificent catalogue ($45), pre­ heard Homer Thompson, who supervised pared by the Ecole nationale superieure this reconstruction, describe movingly the des Beaux Arts, Paris, and Barbara Rose of significance and the utility of such historic the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is and intrinsically beautiful drawings. available while the supply lasts, from ei­ Among the guests were Aristides Caratzas, ther of these sources. A pamphlet and Mr. and Mrs. George Dudley, Mr. and Mrs. checklist with illustrations in color may be James Q. Griffin, Cyril Harris, David had from the office of the ASCSA, at no Hupper, Mrs. Michael Jaharis, Mr. and charge. Benoit Loviot, Parthenon, restoration detai/1879- 81, water-color over India ink outline. Ecole des Beaux-Arts

It's Here At Last!

The long-awaited Msecond 'AKovd It's Complicated But It Works! f.!!l~r '"\ half century' History of ~' ADI lA ~-! , en ~~ '; the Amerzcan School of ~ t; Classical Studies at y I Reading Lucy Meritt's history of the last Hesperia, numerous monograph series, . ,... ~· Athens, 1939-1980, by fifty years of the American School, one is Picture Books and the Newsletter; services Lucy Shoe Meritt, is now opportunely reminded that our primary to members: legal, medical, postal, book­ available from the Publications Office, In­ eurpose is to advance classical scholar­ keeping, personal and public-related; mul­ stitute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, sltip, by teaching, research and excavation. tiple concerns and responsibilities of the 08540. The first of the School's books to be In the past century some 2300 students Managing Committee, Trustees and entirely typeset in-house on the Ibycus and senior scholars, American, Canadian Alumnae/i. A variety of functions must be system, it has become immediately an in­ and a few of foreign nationality, have carried out, in two fluctuating currencies, dispensable reference volume in constant worked at the School, have returned to in a climate of sensitivity to, but avoidance use, providing a wealth of information teach in over 250 colleges, universities and of political involvement with, the govern­ and detail, and suffused with the unique secondary schools, or have pursued influ­ ment of our host country. spirit of the School, of which the author ential careers in museums, architecture, Each of these many components of herself is an indisputable embodiment. law, theology or business. Their research the School is necessary to the strength of Four copies of the earlier History of the publications in classical studies have en­ the institution as a whole. The visibility ASCSA, 1882-1942, by Louis E. Lord, pub­ riched the field immeasurably. and popular appeal of excavation, for ex­ lished in 1947, are still on hand in the Pub­ The organization of the School is of a ample, can focus public attention on the lications Office; the last remaining ten are Byzantine complexity. Centers in Athens, School's financial needs. Much collective in Athens. The two volumes together may Corinth, Princeton and New York, with wisdom, much good will, as well as many be had for $20.00; separately the Lord His­ buildings and equipment in all four; staff differing individual points of view contri­ tory is $7.50; the Meritt History, $15.00. in Greece and in the U.S.; core teaching bute, and, yes, even compromise on occa­ There is a supply of the latter in Athens programs in Athens and in Corinth; two sion, in order to achieve the unity of pur­ also. major libraries with archives and collec­ pose which makes the School the effective The entire School is indebted to Lucy tions; a permanent center for research institution it is. Meritt for a tremendously successful job, in classical archaeology at the Stoa of superbly, meticulously, and lovingly done. Attalos; on-going excavations or surveys Doreen C. Spitzer in many parts of Greece; publication of

2 E. A. Whitehead Fund Laura Gadbery to be First Kress Fellow The trustees have announced the forma­ tion of the Elizabeth A. Whitehead Mem­ The Samuel H. Kress Foundation has orial Fund in honor of the School's im­ awarded-funds for three years of study for mediate past president. All gifts to the a doctoral fellowship each year in the His­ Fund, which is part of the Centennial En­ tory of Art at the School. This grant will dowment Fund, have been matched under enable an advanced Fellow of the School the terms of the School's grant by the An­ to remain in Athens to pursue indepen­ drew W. Mellon Foundation. At the end of dent research toward the Ph.D. May, gifts to this Fund totalled close to Laura Gadbery, now in her third year $175,000. at the School, will examine what may be learned from study of the inscribed and/or architecturally molded bases, found in the exc~vations of the Athenian Agora, on wh1ch statues were mounted in antiquity. Understandably there are more bases ex­ tant than there are statues. Examination of size, material, tooling, methods of attach­ ment, typographical analysis, topographi­ cal setting, purpose (cult or votive or com­ memorative) may bring interesting new evidence to bear on interpretation, identi­ Laura Gadbery fication and dating of the sculptures themselves. Miss Gadbery has worked on wall A graduate of the University of Kansas, paintings from the School's excavations at she is a candidate for the Ph.D. at the In­ Corinth as well as on coins at Samothrace. stitute of Fine Arts of New York University.

Major Gifts and Grants From Foundations WholsWhat Recent gifts to the School include two awards from the David and Lucile Election Results Packard Foundation: the second install­ ment of $25,000 on a three-year grant of New Members of the Managing Committee: $75,000 in support of the Director of the William Murray, University of South Gennadius Library, and an additional Florida; Mark Toher, Union College, Elizabeth A. Whitehead grant of $100,000 to help defray expenses Schenectady, NY (both new Cooperating of the Study Center at the Agora. Institutions); and Susan Rotroff, Hunter The L.A.W. Fund forwarded the sec­ College. ond payment of $10,000 on a three-year Corporate Sponsors Program grant of $30,000 which has been added to The Mellon Professor of Classical Studies, Is Growing the Centennial Fund, and the Henry M. 1985-1988: Blackmer Foundation made a grant of John McK. Camp, presently Assistant The School's Corporate Sponsors Pro­ $5,000 to the Gennadius Library Endow­ Field Director of the Agora Excavations. gram under the initial chairmanship of ment. TheN. Demos Foundation contin­ Trustee Emeritus John J. McCloy has at­ ues to support the services of an archivist Special Research Fellow, 1~86/87: tracted major support. Designed to in­ in the Gennadeion. This year's grant of Emmett L. Bennett, Jr., of the Univer­ crease the School's visibility among cor­ $15,000 will enable Miss Christina Varda sity of Wisconsin at Madison. porations, particularly those doing busi­ to complete cataloguing the papers of ness in Greece, the Program's charter Heinrich Schliemann (see Newsletter, Fall Directors of the 1985 Summer Session: . members include: 1980, p. 1, and this issue, p. 8, for more James Dengate, University of Illinois Atlantic Richfield details). at Urbana-Champaign, ASCSA 1965- Chemical Bank As we go to press, we are pleased to 1967, 1973-1975, and John Overbeck, CITIBANK/CITICORP record two additional grants. The Jessie ASCSA 1955/56,1979/80. Exxon Educational Foundation Ball duPont Religious, Charitable and Ford Motor Company Fund Educational Fund has awarded $25,000 to­ New Members of Committees: Grace Foundation ward the Mellon challenge grant. In Executive: Mary C. Sturgeon and Manufacturer's Hanover Trust 1980/81 Thomas W. Jacobsen was the Jes­ William D. E. Coulson (1984-1988) Company sie Ball duPont Special Research Fellow. Committees: L. Vance Watrous, Sharon Mobil Oil The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, Herbert, and Karl Kilinski (1984-1986) Neutrogena whose grants of recent years established Admissions and Fellowships: Rhys We hope that this list will continue to the School's office in Mayer House, has Townsend (1984-1988) grow as additional corporations contrib­ awarded $25,000 toward the Elizabeth A Gennadius Library: Pierre MacKay and ute to the School's work both in Greece Whitehead Fund, the income from which Marie Spiro (1984-1988) and in the U.S.A. with an annual cor­ will be used, according to the Foundations' Summer Session: Robert L. Pounder porate membership gift of between policy, to support a scholar working in this (1984-1988) $1,000 and $5,000. country: for the year 1984/85, the Lerna Publications: Mary B. Moore (1984- Fellow, Dr. Martha Wieneke. 1989) and Karen D. Vitelli (1984-1987)

3 New England Gentleman ... and so sincere and his unstinting hard and human nature"; his teaching of the Honorary Citizen of Athens work so contagious that others were history of art which gave satisfaction for a drawn to follow his lead and believe with lifetime to generations of Amherst men When Charles Hill Morgan died in Am­ him that what seemed impossible could be (and to Trinity men when he also headed herst, on April 4, 1984 the School lost not accomplished; and it was, with his guid­ the Art Department there in 1964-1966). only the one who had served it in more ca­ ance. Part of this infectiousness stemmed His research and writing ranged from 5th­ pacities than any other in its century of from his own joy and excitement in what century Greek sculpture to Byzantine pot­ history but one who had given it a heart of he was doing. No one who shared his tery, to Michel Angelo, to Thomas Cole, to devotion unsurpassed by any and plans for the construction of Mead or his the Amherst family portraits, to George equalled by few. acquisitions for its collections will forget Bellows, with each of which he struck a Born in Worcester, Massachusetts on the glint in his eye and the ring in his voice sympathetic chord, communicated in September 19, 1902 and educated at the as he reported this point reached or that graceful prose, borrowing rhythms and ca­ Hotchkiss School and Harvard University, portrait secured. The same was true of ev­ dences from the wordless music that was Charlie Morgan was a rare combination of ery stage in the extensive excavation of the such a leisure-time delight. [Beethoven's artistic talents and tastes with administra­ Apassionata, on a hand-cranked victrola in tive skills and practical business sense. An the saloni of the Corinth excavation house artist at heart to whom beauty of line, in 1937 was one of his favorites.] mass, color, and sound from every age and Rather than rephrase, may I quote area, man-made or in nature were the from the recent History of the American bread of life, he early elected to concen­ School #[Charlie] was at home with and trate his professional career on the study trusted by all groups of the School family; and teaching of the history of art with spe­ the Trustees, the Managing Committee cial emphasis at first on ancient Greek and its committees, the staff and student monuments, notably sculpture. From the members as well as the large group of peo­ time he came to the School at Athens as a ple of all kinds whom he interested in the student in 1926 and again in 1928-1929 his work of the School as he traveled country­ heart and mind were inextricably tied to wide. There was no aspect of the School's Greece and its people and to the School, endeavors which he did not make it his and he went on to fill all these offices: business to understand and to follow in Member of the Managing Committee 1932 detail, to take an active part in planning to death, Visiting Professor 1933-1934, Re­ and often also in executing. Each member search Fellow 1952-1953 and Spring 1960, of the School felt Morgan's genuine sym­ Assistant Director 1935-1936, Director of pathy for his particular business and its the School and Field Director of the Cor­ needs and knew his loyalty and absolute inth Excavations 1936-1938, Chairman of fairness to all; at the same time all recog­ the Managing Committee 1950-1960, nized his uncanny ability to keep all Trustee 1950 until his death. After his stu­ Gate of the American School at Old Corinth dent year at the School, he taught Classical Archaeology for a year at Bryn Mawr be­ fore going to Amherst College in 1930. heart of Corinth before the War-al­ From then on his life became a two-fold though Charlie was heard to observe that dedication to Amherst and to the School at Mif excavation continues at this pace we'll Athens, for the one to building the Depart­ be at it for a thousand ye~rs, and by then ment of Art and the Mead Art Museum we'll have to start all over·again!" Later the for the other especially after World War rr: plans for completion of the original area of to rebuilding the School. the Athenian Agora excavations and their publication, the reconstruction of the Stoa of Attalos, all were accomplished against staggering financial and other odds; then the Arthur Vining Davis Wing of the Ble­ gen Library, the reinstallation of the Cor­ inth Museum after the War, and always the School's day to day needs. It was a marvel to his friends how Charlie found the time, thought and ener­ gy for not only these predominant inter­ ests and activities but also many others: three years service in combat intelligence with the 9th Air Force and the 1st Allied Airborne Army in England, France and Germany, retiring as Colonel but retaining dose contact; American International Col­ lege of Springfield, Mass., the Archaeolog­ Director Morgan looks for Byzantine pottery joins ical Institute of America, and the Ameri­ in the Corinth parartema, Fall193 7 can Farm School in Salonike on whose Photo by Herbert List boards he served; his own drawing and These are the facts. They hardly sug­ sketching for pleasure; his collecting; his Managing Committee Chairman, Charles Hill gest the man behind them, the artist's and gourmet cooking shared with friends; the Morgan II, with Arthur Vining Davis in the the scholar's vision, the vigorous energy, gardening which delighted his aesthetic Agora, Athens, August 1959 the masterly understanding of people sense but also, as he once said, #digging in which brought these visions to splendid the earth with your hands is the best reme­ reality. His own convictions were so strong dy for the frustrations of administration 4 Fiftieth Birthday of the Corinth Museum

On April 30, 1934 the Museum of the of course been made to it as the excava­ American School at Old Corinth formally tions have expanded and the finds in­ opened its doors. The gift of Mrs. William creased, but the initial plan was so well de­ H. Moore of New York, in memory of her signed, by W. Stuart Thompson, that fifty father, Judge Edward Alonzo Small, it was years later it is still one of the most attrac­ among the first of the choice museums tive museums in Greece. Its location is in­ built by the School on the site of a dig of conspicuous and beautifully landscaped, major importance. Mrs. Moore, already a its interior court and galleries cool and in­ generous donor, gave forty thousand dol­ viting, and its many unique antiquities lars for its construction and ten thousand handsomely and intelligibly displayed. more for its endowment. Additions have ASCSA salutes the Corinth Museum on looking so well at its half century!

CHM II, Trustee Emeritus, presenting testimonial decree to the McCredies on the Centennial trip to Macedonia, 1981 . At left, Gail Edwards. Photo by Cindi Canaday threads of the multicolored tapestry each in its proper place in the over-all pattern so that the design of greatness for the School which he had envisaged came out bold and clear and harmonious in the end .... Even as he himself, artist-scholar and business man, kept these two always in balance, so he kept his magnificent vision of the scholarly potentialities of the School in truly Hellenic proportion to his practical sense of what was financially possible; but he worked as Chairman indefatigably with dauntless courage and faith to in­ crease and improve both, as he continued to do in the two decades as Trustee. ·Few institutions have the good for­ tune the School has enjoyed to have had The Corinth Museum in 1934, and in 1984 three great 'founders': Charles Eliot Nor­ ton whose vision and drive created it; Ed­ ward Capps whose wisdom, foresight, and dynamic force regenerated it after the first World War; and finally Charles Hill Mor­ gan, truly a third KTLUTTJS Kat €fl€p"yfTTJS whose whole head, heart, and hand were selflessly devoted to recreating, after the For those who had the privilege of second World War, a School stronger, working with Charlie Morgan the final more versatile, more effective in furthering word must be a less public, more private its purposes, of international stature, one, our sense of deep loss of a true friend, which would in the last third of its first kind, thoughtful, generous. His friendship New Volume in the Corinth Series century approach fulfillment of the vision carried the integrity which characterized and the faith he and the other two had his whole life. The long-awaited Corinth, Volume XV, in it.H Lucy Shoe Meritt Part iii, The Potters' Quarter, The Pottery, It was typical of Charlie that he never by A. N. Stillwell and ]. L. Benson, with spoke of honors, but we do know of these: Former students, colleagues and friends of contributions by A. L. Boegehold and C. G. L.H.D. University of Vermont, Allied Le­ Charles Morgan who wish to honor him Boulter, is now available from the Publica­ gion of Merit Award, Belgian Croix de may contribute to the endowment of the tions Office, c/o Institute for Advanced Guerre, Honorary Citizen of Athens, School. To date, over $10,500 has been re­ Study, Princeton, NJ, 08540. The price is Grand Cross of the Royal Order of the ceived for the Centennial Fund in his $75, with discount for libraries of ASCSA Phoenix of Greece. memory. supporting institutions. 5 here she always said, that she found the perseverance to develop them. Many re­ greatest inspiration for her teaching mained close friends throughout her life. career: Her enthusiasm was phenomenal, for his­ The four students of that summer-on­ tory, literature and art of all periods but es­ the-verge-of-war travelled in an old tour­ pecially of the Classical Mediterranean. ing car with ising-glass curtains and jump She read deeply the scholarly works in her seats, driven by the School's "Kimon*. field and she loved to make connections James Constantine [retired from the Uni­ between that world-very much alive in versity of Virginia] was one of' those four. her-of Caesar, Cicero and Vergil, and our He recalls sharing thirst-quenching "kar­ own. When a connection, her own or pouzi* with Lois on the Peloponnesian someone else's, was particularly good, it trip. "She was always gay and good-hu­ triggered instant laughter, a really unique mored, and her keen mind missed expression of joy which carried all before nothing*. it. She was generous with her time. I re­ Marion Stone of Clearwater, Florida member with particular gratitude the ef­ visited the School with Louis Lord's Ae­ forts she made to introduce her high neid Cruise back in 1930 and later became school students to her friends on univer­ Lois Larson's closest friend. Mrs. Stone sity faculties and to their libraries, as well sends a gift to the School each year to hon­ as the after school translating sessions she or Lois Larson's birthday, "ex animo*. held for specially interested students. Active all of her life in classical affil­ "The connections Lois made were in­ iations, on her retirement in 1966 Mrs. Lar­ tellectual, but also, and most important, son embarked on serious study of the flora they were personal-her friends whom of the Mediterranean and travelled she knew, admired and loved, who had Lois Ashton Larson, teacher of Classics through Sicily with former student Joe been students at the American School or Carter. who had taught there. The School was her Professor Carter, now head of the mecca when she sought the wildflowers of Classics Department, University of Texas Greece which her husband photographed The Magic of a Dedicated Teacher at Austin, says of Lois Larson: "She was by and about which she both read and lec­ any standards an extraordinary teacher. tured to groups in the Chicago area. As al­ Lois Ashton Larson (1905-1983) was an ex­ She had the gift to see the latent abilities ways, her enthusiasm was infectious." citing, stimulating teacher who made the and possibilities-intellectual, artistic, or­ It is good to know that the ASCSA classics come alive at York Community High ganizational-in numerous students lucky contributed to the magic of this dedicated School in Elmhurst, Illinois, for nearly forty enough to study Latin with her. She had teacher. It is in large part for that, after all, years. She had been one of the four members the good sense to encourage them and the that we are in business. of the School's Summer Session led by Louis Lord in July of 1939, when Gorham Stevens was Director of the School. Mrs. Larson re­ quested that, upon her death, any tributes should be in the form of support for the School which had "made all the difference" in her teaching. The resulting flood of contribu­ tions was so great that we asked her husband and some of her colleagues and students to tell us more about her. Warren Larson writes: "They called it magic. Students enrolled in Latin just to gain admission to her attic which was crammed with products of the imagination and creativity of thirty-eight years of teaching Latin; props made for special events with which Lois introduced classics to York school scholars. Red paper hats, for celebrating the Saturnalia with cries of 'Io Saturnalis'! Black arm bands worn on the Ides of March to commemorate the death of Caesar. Murals painted for the symposia, royal purple robes and white to­ gas, "authentic* armor for mock gladiato­ School trip drivers in the 30's,Kimon, Mitso and Yanni rial combat. Many of her students went on to distinguished careers which was a sat­ isfaction to Lois whether those careers were in classics or physics, banking or publishing. It's a MtKpoKO

Joan and Fred Winter, Senior Associate Mem­ bers of the School, on leave from the Univer­ sity of Toronto, report on their research. We are pleased to be spending the aca­ demic year 1983/84 at ASCSA. Having no "official" function to perform, we are de­ voting a good deal of time to travel outside Athens, in pursuit of our current major in­ terests: the itineraries of the second-centu­ ry A.D. traveller, Pausanias, in the Pelo­ ponnesos (especially Lakonia and Arka­ dia), and a re-examination of a number of minor temples and townsites, explored many decades ago and not seriously re­ considered until recently. A major factor of our interest in Pau­ sanias, we must admit, is that it takes us into some of the most spectacular terrain in Greece outside of the northern Pindus "On the other side o{Gythium by the sea is .. . Zarax [Fred Winter on the acropolis). The best shellfish for region. Mts. Pamon and Taygetos in Lako­ the manufacturers of purple dye, after those of Phoenicia, are to be found on the coast of Laconia." Pausanias, III.21.6 nia and the high mountains of northern Arkadia surely have few, if any, rivals for scenic beauty. Moreover the present time is excellent for travel in these regions. Many are accessible by new roads but still little changed; it is possible to cover more ground now than in the early days when most exploration had to be done on foot. Some of the new roads are not yet very good, to be sure, but we take the optimistic view that a road cannot be classed as im­ passable until one has tried and become hopelessly stuck! So far, we have not needed a tow truck although we cannot honestly recommend riding eight kilome­ ters of rough road sitting on the fenders of a tractor! Of course we have tried to concentrate on those parts of Pausanias' travels about which there is disagreement (even if this means adding to the already extensive lit­ erature on the subject!); for example, the ancient traveller's route from Lema into "The promontory of Taenarum projects into the sea 150 stades, with the harbors Achilleus and Lakonia, and to the coastal and inland Psamathus .... Among other offerings is a bronze statue of Arion the harper on a dolphin." sites he mentions East and South of Mt. Pausanias, III.25.4-7 Pamon. We believe that we are one up on Pausanias, since we doubt that he crossed All in all, we are having a profitable if this mountain massif, as we have done, in strenuous year, alternating field trips with the wake of a heavy snowfall! periods of study and preparation in the Of the temples and shrines we have Blegen Library-where we are especially visited, many are in Arkadia. Closer study grateful for the stability and comfort of the of these little-knQwn monuments will add seating arrangements! a new dimension to our appreciation of Greek sacred architecture for many of them lie outside the mainstream of classi­ cal architectural development. In the field of civic architecture too, such long-familiar sites as the Agoras of Mantineia and Arka­ dian Orchomenos, which are still dis­ cussed on the basis of interpretations of Correction Please! 70-90 years ago, bear re-examination now that we know more about Greek secular architecture. The address of Philipp von Zabem, given on page 14 of the Newsletter, Winter 1984, "You come to Athene where the Aeginetans once for ordering Volume III of the Keos series, made their home, another village Neris and the should read: largest, Eva. Above the village rises Mt. Parnon on Postfach 4065 (new number) which the border of Lacedaemonia meets the bor­ Welschnonnengasse 13a ders of the Argives and the. people of Tegea." D-6500 Mainz, West Germany Pausanias, II.38.6-7

7 The Schliemann Archives

From Frank Walton's Griffon, from the Lord and the Meritt Histories of the School and from other sources, the following sketch is drawn of the many uses, to date, of the Schliemann archives in the possession of the Gennadeion. 1937, Madame Melas, daughter of Schliemann, gives diaries, letters and pa­ pers of her father to the Library. 1942, Shirley Weber, Librarian of the Genna­ deion 1937-1953, edits Schliemann'-s First Visit to America 1850-1851 as Gennadeion Monograph II. 1953 and 1958, Ernst Mey­ er, with the cooperation of Schliemann de­ scendants, publishes two volumes of let­ ters. 1961, Schliemann's journey to Ameri­ ca for his divorce from his Russian wife is described in Schliemann in Indianapolis edited by Eli Lilly whose gift of $60,000 at this time enabled the library to purchase the rest of the available Schliemann mate­ rial. 1966, Lynn and Gray Pool research the archives for One Passion, Two Loves and subsequently give to the School a complete set of photographs made from the original sources. Two of these are re­ produced here. 1975, Irving Stone in his foreword to Greek Treasure writes that he was in Athens when the Gennadeion pur­ chased from the last Schliemann grand­ sons a suitcase full of letters between Hen­ ry and Sophia and the Engastromenos family and expresses gratitude to Dr. Fran­ cis R. Walton and his assistants at the Gen­ nadeion M.for their unfailing kindness and helpfulness in my work on their Schlie­ mann archives.w 1984, it is rumored that the BBC will present a program on Schlie­ mann in the fall. Against this background, Archivist Christina Varda (Newsletter, Spring 1980) gives the following report on the near com­ pletion of her monumental work. It is clear that the papers of Heinrich Schliemann form by far the most volumi­ nous of all the archives in the Gennadius Library. This important material, acquired over the last half century, although re­ searched from time to time had never been thoroughly and professionally classified or p indexed. Thanks to a succession of generous Heinrich and Sophia Schliemann, Wilhelm DVrpfeld and friends. Photos from Gennadius Archives grants from the Demos Foundation, the entire corpus of Schliemann papers will lems, transactions with his publishers, soon be available to scholars in organized translators, and booksellers. The orderly form. The enormous volume of correspon­ accessibility of the material will make it dence now being catalogued will provide possible for the researcher to discover fur­ considerably more information about this ther intriguing aspects of Schliemann's dedicated Homeric scholar, linguist, trav­ controversial personality and achievement eller, and pioneer excavator, who was also which have fascinated people ever since a keen if acerbic observer of life and this man first set a pick to Trojan soil. people. The nature of the material, upon fur­ ther study, has proved to be richly diverse, suggesting new areas of related investiga­ tion. Letters concern his commercial activi­ ties, family relations, his intellectual evo­ lution, discussions with eminent persons of his time, specific archaeological prob- 'Which Troy do I come from?"

8 ASCSA Host To Young Presidents

Some thirty-six members of the organiza­ tion of "under-fifty" presidents of Ameri­ can businesses, with their wives, enjoyed an "academy" in Classical Greece, with emphasis on Philip and Alexander. Under the tutelage of Eugene Borza (S1957, 1967- 68), and other classicists, the group, organ­ ized by Hunter Rawlings of the Classics Department of the University of Colorado, met in Thessalonike the last week in May to visit the Macedonian tombs at Vergina and tour the splendid exhibition in the new wing of the Museum. In Athens, they engaged in appropriately Socratic dialogue with Bill Dinsmoor, Dan Pullen, Steve Koob and others of the School staff, who then showed them around the Agora. Fol­ lowing a tour of the Gennadeion the group attended a reception in the School garden Anastasia Condas, chairman Bay Area Friends of the Gennadeion, with members of the Hellenic American and heard a lively talk by Director Steve Professional Society, Helen Delevois and George Thodos, contributors. Beyond, Dr. Panagopoulos and Mr. Miller. The Young Presidents on this trip and Mrs. Petrakis, parents of Susan, Edward Capps Fellow for 1984/85 at ASCSA were an interested and receptive group and came away thinking well of Greece New Greek-American Friends and our American presence there. for the Gennadeion

Responding enthusiastical­ ly to the lectures given in the San Francisco Bay Area by Director of the Genna­ deion Beata Panagopoulou, in December 1983 and January 1984, a lo­ cal committee has organized under the chairmanship of Mrs. Ann Condas, to pro­ mote further interest in and support of the library. Institutions taking part in the pro­ gram include the Democritos Society, headed by Professor Yotopoulos of Stan­ ford University, and the Hellenic Ameri­ can Professional Society of California whose president is Helen Ernst of Menlo Park. Many of these new friends of the Gennadeion already have first-hand ac­ quaintance with the riches of this library. The first event presented by the newly formed group was a lecture on •The For­ gotten Treasures of the Gennadeion" giv­ en on April 27 by Dr. E. P. Panagopoulos at Lone Mountain College of the Univer­ sity of San Francisco. 'Nondas", long-time professor of American Constitutional His­ The staff of the Gennadius Library: I. tor., Makis Tarlantas, Kristina Varda, Sophie Papageorgiou, Artemis Nikolaidou, Sophia Valatsou, Joannis Mandelos . Photo by David Jordan tory at the University of California, San Jose, is a popular purveyor of modem Greek to students at ASCSA; by no means The Waltons from Athens to Washington least, he is the husband of the director of the Gennadeion. Interested persons living in the Bay At the time of Francis Walton's departure ton, a souvenir of our esteem and love Area may write for details to Mrs. Ann from Athens in September 1983 after his from [1. to r.] Makis, Kristina, Sophie, Ar­ Condas, 17766 Hillside Court, Castro Val­ twenty-one years of outstanding service to temis, Sophia, Ioannis." ley, CA, 94546, or phone (415) 538-3769. the ASCSA as Director· of the Gennadius Frank and Mary Walton are now en­ Library, the staff of the library presented sconced at 5420 Connecticut Ave., N.W., to Mary C. Walton for Frank, a silver box Washington, D. C., where he is doing a lot Walton Lecture inscribed ·To our beloved Francis R. Wal- of reading and she has recently had a show of her watercolor paintings. A report of the 3rd annual Walton Lecture, held at the Gennadius Library on April 3, 1984, will appear in the Newsletter, Fall 1984.

9 J.J. soon discovered with regret the volumes, Lerna, two, and the first Keos vol­ paucity of printers in the United States ume, as well as two Gennadeion Cata­ willing to undertake scholarly publications logues, a Gennadeion Monograph, Nemea, in the small editions such works require. and Propylaia to the Athenian Akropolis. His He began to fill that need, and when, after devotion to the School and its members World War II, connections were re-estab­ was so great that he acted as publisher for lished with the plant \n Gliickstadt, he saw a festschrift for one of those members, the possibility of helping both his friends subsidizing a major part of it himself. in the United States and the people of his J.J.'s standards of precision and excel­ hometown. He would handle the manu­ lence in printing were equalled by his will­ scripts from his office in Locust Valley as ingness, nay eagerness, to take no end of an American firm, but would have the pains to make things correct and precisely printing done in the Gliickstadt plant what was wanted, no matter how difficult. where the work would help the residents It was not merely a wish to please his edi­ of that small town in Schleswig-Holstein tors; it was his own desire to have his firm get on their feet aga,in; many of them were produce a work of scholarly worth, lasting descendants of those who had worked in beauty, and high quality. It was a personal the printing office since 1632. That the satisfaction to him to have a part in adding American School was one of the first of to the scholarly output, particularly in hu­ those many American academic organiza­ manistic studies, especially language and f. f. Augustin tions to work with the Augustin firm was a literature, art and archaeology. His learn­ piece of the good fortune the School has ing and interest in these fields was wide J. J. Augustin enjoyed in its century of life. and keen. Every volume received his own 1904-1984 No official member of the School fam­ personal care through every phase of pro­ ily could have had its interests more at duction. He worked with each of his edi­ "That is no problem," the signature of J,J. heart. From that first day in 1950 through tors as a professional colleague and, above Augustin, will long continue to symbolize the more than a quarter century, J.J., the all, as a friend. His visits were memorable the contribution to the School of one of Long Island publisher, headed the printing for his resourceful and helpful solutions to our staunchest friends, who died at his firm in Germany as its representative in printing problems,.but equally for discus­ home in Locust Valley, New York on this country, even after his eyes began to sions of the many facets of life that inter­ March 1, 1984. fail and his son, who shares many of his ested him: art, letters, history, people and When the School undertook to man­ qualities, succeeded him. A distinguished their thoughts, groups or individuals age all the stages of its publications and list of the School's publications reflects whom he could help in some way, espe­ appointed an editor to do so, the volume J.J.'s careful supervision and concern as cially young people, his family and its tra­ of work was greater than our good friends well as his fine sense of design. In addition ditions for which he had a deep attach­ the J. H. Furst Company could handle. to the thirteen volumes of the already es­ ment, and, of top priority to him, music. Someone mentioned Augustin to the ed­ tablished Corinth series which he printed His understanding of people with penetra­ itor. The immediate response to her ex­ for us, the School inaugurated four other tion, humor, and sympathy, his warm­ ploratory letter was the first of innumer­ series which he designed with a sensitive heartedness and generosity, his integrity able phone calls with the same cheery feeling for how a scholarly work should made him a friend for whom we shall be "That is no problem; may I come to your appear: Athenian Agora of which he did forever grateful. office tomorrow?" From that day in 1950 nineteen varied volumes, Isthmia, three Lucy Shoe Meritt for over a quarter of its century the School enjoyed an unusual bond with a scholar publisher and his firm in Ghickstadt which had had over 300 years experience in printing fine scholarly works. Johannes Jakob Augustin, born in 1904, had followed the family tradition of being apprenticed to every aspect of the business, then pursuing his own academic training in art, music, and languages, espe­ cially Oriental languages, in Innsbruck, Leipzig, Vienna, Paris, and London. In 1932 he returned to join the firm in Ghick­ stadt as his father's second in command. King Christian IV of Denmark had autho­ rized the foundation of this printing office in 1632; thus it was one of the earliest printers in northern Europe. It had been owned and operated since 1775 by the Au­ gustin family, and it was noted for printing in some 108 languages and 30-odd alpha­ bets other than the Latin. But in 1936 strength of conviction caused J.J. to flee from family, business, and homeland to start on his own in the United States. He often spoke of how immediately he felt at home in this country which he had visited first in 1932 to establish professional con­ The printing house of f. f. Augustin in Gltlckstadt nections. He became a devoted and happy United States citizen. 10 Dow Birthday Party, Continued from page 1 lai, and the reading of difficult (often erased) inscriptions, by means of multiple improved squeezes (the collection of squeezes at Harvard, about 3000 in num­ ber, is largely composed of squeezes which Dow made himself). He also identified the Greek Cult Tables, discovered the largest surviving foot of Serapis, and identified the .Kleroterion (the allotment machine by which Athenian magistrates were select­ ed). Prytaneis (Hesperia, Supplement I), which founded the study of the Agora's leading class of inscriptions, also was the work of these years. Since his first visit to Athens, Dow has returned often and was Annual Professor in 1966-67, during which year he organ­ E. Vermeule presents greetings from the Archaeological Institute of America; at left, S. Tracy, D. C. Spitzer ized the weekly talks at tea. Dow's uncan­ ny success at suggesting paper and thesis topics to students and his unselfish en­ The "After-Tea Talks" eral or who fears that Classical Studies couragement of their own ideas has ex­ 1966/67-1983/84 lack vitality should have been present. • tended his influence on the intellectual life These words ring equally true today. of the School far beyond the 30 students In the past two years, one of the primary What started as an experiment has become who wrote Ph.D. theses under him. We all tasks of the Secretary of the School has an established practice in the subsequent join in wishing him Xpovta ITo>..>..a. been to arrange for the so-called •After­ years. Naturally, some details have Tea Talks". The early history of these talks changed. The talks now begin at 6:00 and goes back to 1966/67 when Sterling Dow, vary in length from half to one hour; both the Annual Professor at the School in that tea and talks take place in the Loring Hall year, initiated this new academic activity. saloni, although even there it is often The information below is drawn from his S.R.O. Further, the talks bring together an report. increasing number of scholars from the The After-Tea talks were modelled on other Foreign Schools at Athens and from brief informal talks held after lunch at the Greek academic community to share Dartmouth, Berkeley, and Harvard. These with us their knowledge and their work in consisted of a ten-minute presentation of progress. Thus, even wider diversity con­ material prepared by an instructor or a stu­ tinues to characterize both speakers and dent, followed by twenty minutes of gen­ subject. eral discussion. These first such talks at the The 1983/84 talks have been arranged School took place every Tuesday, prompt­ in two groups: one to coincide with the ly at 5:40 after tea. West (Loring Hall) School's winter term, i.e. from late No­ House provided the meeting place, every vember till late March; the other, to begin session having at least fifteen in atten­ after the Open Meeting on April 8. I am dance. Speakers included students who happy to report that the ratio of women to had been at the School at least one year, as men is now 1:2. A popular innovation this well as senior persons in alternate weeks, year has been the buffet-reception offered though an exception was made for one by the Director in the "Piano Nobile" fol­ Leslie Threatte, organizer of the Festschrift, first year student, Stephen Tracy [now at lowing the discussions. The setting and the and W. T. Loomis, of the Birthday Party Ohio State University whose specialty is collection provides just the relaxed atmo­ Greek letter forms]. The only speaker not a sphere conducive to a continuing ex­ member of the School community was Pe­ change of information and ideas between ter Green, a guest and visitor to Athens speaker and listeners; the custom is prov­ [Ancient Greece, Thames and Hudson Ltd., ing to be a valuable contribution to inter­ London 1973, and others.] Of the twenty national scholarship and friendship. speakers that first year most were men; as Mr. Dow observed, "One defect is that on­ Angeliki Petropoulou ly three women appear." The audience, on "Secretary of the Exterior" the other hand, was not restricted to the School community but included persons See also •After- Tea Talks Illustrate Diverse from the nearby British and Swedish Scholarship,n Newsletter, Fall1979, p. 5. Schools as well as frequent vistors. The most interesting feature of these first After-Tea Talks was the variety of [The After-Tea Talk on April 17, by Pro­ topics. Out of twenty subjects, six covered fessor Frederick Winter of the University issues of Ancient Greek literature and lan­ of Toronto, an authority on Greek fortifi­ guage, ten focused on Archaeology, Histo­ cations, featured new interpretations of ry, and Epigraphy, one on Ancient Greek old excavations at Orchomenos (Arcadia) Medicine, and two examined aspects of and Megalopolis. See page 7 for an ac­ Byzantine and Modern Greece. As Sterling count of the Winters' peripatetic topo­ Dow noted, • Anyone who doubts the di­ graphical research during this year spent Photos by Edmond f. Morrissey versity and generosity of interests in gen- at the School.] , 11 Richmond Lattimore May 6, 1906-February 26, 1984

The American School pays tribute to Rich­ mond Lattimore, Paul Shorey Professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr, teacher, poet, and translator of poets, a member of the School in 1951-1952 and again in 1960-1961. For the Memorial Service at Bryn Mawr, the Philadelphia Trio played Men­ delssohn, Beethoven, and Dvorak, and several of his colleagues read from his po­ etry. Like Sophocles, as Mabel Lang says, ·he saw life steadily and saw it whole.# Emily Vermeule avers that it is difficult to separate the two, Homer and Dick Latti­ more, his finest translator. Steven Latti­ more, his son, likes to remember •being a happy little boy sitting on the porch of a summer cabin listening to his father read him stories about the foolish Xerxes and the close calls of the Greeks." Dick Lattimore's teaching, the scope and clarity of his intellect and the quality of his humane traits have affected many people who feel diminished by his death Richmond Lattimore Photo by Bern Schwartz A Photographic Journey but exhilarated by his remarkable gifts to scholarship. Through Time: 1940-1984 An Exhibition of Photos by Alison Frantz

Charles Chetham, Director of the Smith College Museum of Art, calls Alison Frantz ·one of the distinguished photo­ graphers of her generation . . . whose work, appearing in scholarly and popular publications, has often formed the first visual experience of the ancient world for many: The exhibition, celebrating her 60th reunion at Smith, includes some of Frantz's best known Classical subjects, many genre studies and portraits of her beautiful cats. It will remain on view until 21 October, 1984. In 1929/30 Alison Frantz was a stu­ dent at ASCSA. In 1933 she was appointed photographer and Research Fellow at the Agora where she undertook the restora­ tion of the Church of the Holy Apostles. One of the two women members of the Allied Mission to observe the Greek elec­ tions in 1946, she served as Cultural Atta­ che at the U.S. Embassy from 1946 to 1949 and assisted in setting up the Fulbright Program in Greece. Few people know The new Archaeological Museum at Nemea. Drawing by Charles Dennis Greece as well as she, or have portrayed its people, its antiquities, or its feline popula­ tion, as unforgettably. Happy Birthday tist also did the drawing of the Gennadei­ to the Nemea Museum on (used by the Director as a Christmas greeting) especially to show the inscription The new Archaeological Museum at Ne­ on the frieze of the fa~ade: "EAA.7WH Ka­ mea was officially opened, dedicated and A.ovvTat Tijs ?Tatat.. vuws Tijs ~JJ.f.T€pas JJ.f.T­ presented to the·Greek State on May 28. €xovT£s, ' They are called Greeks who An illustrated account of the attendant share in our culture; from !socrates' Pane­ Those who watched the television show, ceremonies will appear in the Newsletter, gyricus. Mr. Dennis gave a course in draw­ The First Olympics, on May 20 and 21 may Fall1984. ing to a group of first and second year stu­ have been startled to see the Agora al­ Charles Dennis, former professor of dents at the School during the winter ready completely excavated in 1896, and architecture at Diablo Valley College, CA, months. The drawings, in black and white, Byron's name carved on a column of the who now lives in Rhodes, designed this on folding cards with envelopes, are avail­ Parthenon! drawing of the new museum. The same ar- able at the School and at Nemea.

12 apparent throughout as he grilled his Two Presidents Visit the Agora guides on many aspects of the ancient Agora and its present role in the life of the On March 28 the President of Greece, Mr. modem city. His attention was caught par­ Constantine Karamanlis, paid an extended ticularly by the bronze shield taken from visit-to the Agora, together with the former the Spartans at Pylos in 425 B.C." and he president, Mr. C. Tsatsos. In the company commented on its great weight. At the He­ of Dr. E. P. Touloupa and C. Tsakos, phaisteion he discussed with John Travlos (Ephors), Mr. John Travlos (Architect the relative merits of that temple and the Emeritus), and John Camp (Assistant Field Parthenon, and several times he expressed Director), Mr. Karamanlis spent two hours pleasure with the landscaping, which touring both the site and the Stoa of Atta­ looked particularly fine on a glorious los museum. He was shown the public gal­ spring day. During his visit he was also leries of the Stoa as well as the workrooms shown the houses overlying the area of and models upstairs and then visited the the Stoa Poikile and pledged his support monuments of the west side and the He­ for the completion of excavations along phaisteion. The President's interest was the north side. Aristides Kyriakides., 1966. HenryS . Robinson at right

A Reminder of the School's Debt to Old Friends

Virginia Grace reports from Athens the death on March 1, 1984 of Christina Ky­ riakides, widow of the late Aristides Kyria­ kides (d. 1967) who, together with Alexan­ der Adossides (d. 1942), had been counsel­ lor to the School in the original delibera­ tions with the Greek authorities that led to the American School's excavation of the Agora in 1931: #a site unmatched in Greece for historical interest, as also for technical difficulty#, [report of the Excavations in the Athenian Agora 1940-1946, Hesperia 16 (1947)]. Mr. Kyriakides, as Mr. Adossides had done before him, took on the management of the School during the Occupation, scrounged funds to pay the staff until money could be transferred from America, and supervised distribution of clothing to School personnel in 1945-46. He whom Director Henry Robinson called the #Nestor and Mentor of the School# contin­ i. to r.: C. Tsakos, representing the Greek Archaeological Service in the Stoa of Attalos, f. Camp (wearing Late Geometric sweater), President Tsatsos, President Karamanlis, f. Travlos, Dr. E. P. Touloupa, Director ued as legal advisor to expedite the labor­ of the Acropolis. Photo by Craig Mauzy, Agora Excavations ious and intricate process of acquiring the hundreds of small pieces of real estate needed for the excavations. This meant negotiating fair appraisals of the value of the properties, their expropriation, proce­ dures in cases of appeal, indemnification of tenants obliged to find other homes, etc. both were great admirers and unstintingly being an archaeologist, I feel I am a col­ Min the devious alleys of the old quarter loyal friends of the school. Mr. Kyriakides league and a real friend in a common ef­ under the Acropolis/ wrote Mr. Kyriaki­ considered his work for the School not fort.* (Meritt, History, p. 104) des to the President of the School's Trus­ merely a professional job but ... #without tees, MI am confronted with a host of peo­ ple, some miserable and poor whom I can­ not easily drive away and others who Homer A. Thompson Honored make a fuss in order to start a public scan­ Who's Who on the Agora Staff 1932 dal. Justice, being proverbially blindfold­ by the University of Paris ed, cannot see the beauty of antiquities: (For photo see Newsletter, Winter 1984, p. 8) It would be hard to exaggerate what For the second time in its history, the Uni­ the School owes to Messrs. Adossides and versity of Paris at Nanterre, on 27 January Back row: Charles Spector, Piet de Jong, Kyriakides, not only for their professional 1984, conferred the title of Docteur honoris Arthur Parsons, Eugene Vanderpool, Mary wisdom but still more for the way in which causa upon six distinguished #savants Zelia Pease (Philippides), James Oliver. they maintained the cordial relations be­ etrangersh. Homer A Thompson was one Middle row: Joan Bush (Vanderpool), tween the School, the Greek authorities of the six. As might be expected, he was in Elizabeth F. Dow, Virginia Grace, Gladys and the Greek people, which are so essen­ good company, the other recipients being Ballantyne (Parker), Homer Thompson·. tial to the successful functioning of the His Holiness the Dalai Lama, an Italian Front row: Lucy Talcott, Ben Meritt, School. Both men were greatly respected scientist, a Polish writer, an American so­ Josephine Shear, T. Leslie Shear, Dorothy by all factions of the Greek community, ciologist and a Mexican philosopher. Burr (Thompson). ' I 13 Ancient Ship to Sail Again

A Greek merchant ship sank off the north coast of Cyprus, near the town of Kyrenia, sometime during the last decade of the 4th century B.C. Diver Andreas Cariolou dis­ covered the site and in 1967 graciously in­ formed a survey team from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of its location. With the permission of the Department of Antiquities of the Republic of Cyprus a group of archaeologists and students from 12 countries excavated the shipwreck dur­ ing the summers of 1968 and 1969. From a depth of 90 to 100 feet the car­ go was recovered consisting primarily of approximately 400 amphoras, which with the aid of Virginia Grace could be identi­ fied: most were of Rhodian manufacture and probably contained wine, others were Samian and possibly contained oil, and there were an odd few of unknown origin. Another cargo contained over 10,000 al­ monds presumably carried in sacks. A third cargo consisted of some. 30 iron blooms. The ballast included 29 millstones from the island of Nisyros. The crew's Excavators working within grids use suction hoses to clear hull seen from the stern crockery was also found, and the number of examples of different shapes suggests that a captain and three mates manned the Now a new phase of the project is un­ na Mercouri, and the event raised almost ship. der way. The American Institute of Nau­ $10,000. In Cyprus one of Andreas' sons, The most significant #find" of the exca­ tical Archaeology, of which the late Betsy Glafcos Cariolou, is seeking support for vation is the remarkably well-preserved Whitehead was a founder, with myself the successful completion of NKyrenia II". hull. Protected by a fine muddy sand, over and J. Richard Steffy serving as consul­ Sea trials for the 46 foot, 25 ton vessel 60% of its timbers survived to be raised tants, is cooperatffig with the Hellenic In­ are scheduled to begin during the summer from the seabed. However, the water­ stitute for the Preservation of Nautical of 1985. With a single square sail and two logged wood had the consistency of soggy Tradition, its President Harry Tzalas coor­ steering oars we will run tests to determine bread. Using a waxlike compound, poly­ dinating with shipwright Manolis Psaros, the ship's speed in varying wind condi­ ethylene glycol, the pieces were consoli­ to build a full-scale replica of the NKyrenia tions, how close she can sail into the wind, dated, some requiring two years of treat­ Ship". Work began in November of 1982 at and how manoeuverable she is under dif­ ment. Nearly 5,000 fragments were then the Psaros' shipyard in Perama, near Eleu­ ferent wind, sail, and cargo factors. We painstakingly reassembled, and by the sis. Woods comparable to those in the an­ summer of 1974 the reconstruction of the cient hull are being used, for the most part hull was virtually completed to serve as pine from the island of Samos. Duplicating the focal point of a museum devoted to the the size and shape of the rockered keel ship in Kyrenia's Crusader Castle. was difficult; four timbers were tried but scrapped before the piece of perfect curve was found and cut. Then, following the ancient mode of construction, the #shell­ first" method, the outer planking was be­ gun. These planks are held together by closely spaced mortice-and-tenon joints. Some 8,000 mortices will be cut before the whole shell is completed. This method of joinery is quite different from modem plank on frame construction. The builders are learning the ancients' techniques and using hand tools as much as possible. At present, the fourth of fourteen strakes is being prepared. We estimate that the Hel­ lenic Institute for the Preservation of Nau­ tical Tradition will launch the finished hull within a year. A great deal of the material for the project is being donated, and much of the work is done by volunteers. On January 20th a gala ball, held at the Grande Bre­ tagne Hotel in Athens, helped generate funds for the replica building. Over 450 people danced the night away, including the Minister of Culture and Sciences, Meli- Diver over the mound of Rhodian amphoras Reassembled hull from the bow

14 • • Copies of School Publications Are You Travelling with Children? Needed ... Can You Help? ASCSA Receives Special Mention The latest edition (1984) of Fielding's Eu­ The Publications Office has received the rope with Children, by Leila Hadley, gives following request from a student at Kuma­ kudos to the Picture Books of the American moto University, Japan: School. MFascinating, relevant and delight­ fully easy reading are any and all of the My name is Juko Ito, a Japanese architec­ illustrated booklets obtainable from the tural historian and architect. My major is the ASCSA, c/o Institute for Advanced Study, history of Classical architecture. For the re­ Princeton, NJ, 08540; Tel. (609) 734-8386. search of my major field I am looking for (You can order now and be billed later.) some excavation reports of ancient Corinth, They are also available in the Agora Mu­ Greece, which were published by your seum Shop in the Stoa of Attalos . . .: MFa­ School. The reports which I would like to get are as follows: miliarize your children with the gods, he­ roes and heroines of ancient Greece,* the "Corinth Excavation: American School of author recommends, Mfrom Ares to Zeus Classical Studies at Athens" their identities and their tales are fascinat­ I, part ! Introduction: Topography, ing and timely.* Archztecture, 1932 I, part II Architecture, 1941 I, part III Monuments in the Lower Agora, 1951 Sternpost and keel of the replica (slide) II, The Theater, 1951 Ill, part I Acrocorinth, 1930 need to know how the nature of her de­ III, part II The Defenses of Acrocorinth, sign and construction affects the ship at 1936 sea. How will the curved keel influence V, part I Roman Villa, 1930 her stability and liveliness? Does the mor­ X, Odeum, 1932 tice-and-tenon joinery produce a more or XIV, The Asklepieion and Lema, 1951 less rigid ship that behaves differently (by Roebuck, Carl) from her modern counterparts? These and XV, part I The Potters' Quarter other questions should be answered when At present I need especially "Vol. XIV the replica retraces that last voyage of the The Asklepieion and Lerna" by Carl Roebuck. MKyrenia Ship* made more than 2,200 If you have any stock of these materials, years ago. please inform us with a pricelist which vol­ umes are available. We are ready to purchase Michael L. Katzev them immediately. It will be highly appreci­ Institute of Nautical Archaeology ated if you reply for my request at your earli­ est convenience. Meanwhile, at Mayer House ... All of the above are out of print. Closer to home, Director Steve Miller The American School has had a successful would like to complete his showcase of the third quarter. The total raised for the year School's publications. The desiderata are as so far is over $700,000. Special grants and follows: the status of the Corporate Sponsors Pro­ gram are noted on page 3. Hesperia, before 1953 # 1961-1966 John J. Sproule has replaced Robert Blegen Library Inventoried 1971-1972 Armstrong as the School's financial officer. by Corps of Volunteers Hesperia Supplements, I through VIII, Margaret Anne Butterfield returned from a and X six-week leave of absence touring with the Agora Volumes I, ii, vi, ix, x, and xii The annual inventory of the Blegen Li­ New York City Opera National Compa­ Volumes II, i through vi; VII, i; brary was carried out this year for the first Corinth ny's production of La Boheme. The latest VIII, i, ii time by members of the School them­ addition to the staff is a small but powerful selves, all in one day. Expansion of the li­ If anyone is so fortunate as to have in­ one: an IBM PC has joined the work force brary and the new visitor policy, plus the herited, bought, or otherwise acquired any and is busily memorizing donor records German Institute's library being closed for of the above-mentioned volumes, and no and digesting budget figures. several months during the winter, brought longer requires that they remain on Central Park C.onservancy has moved an increasing number of users: 218 mem­ his/her shelves, would that person please out of the second floor. The Samuel H. bers and 150 other part-time Americans; so inform the Publications Office, (Insti­ Kress Foundation is occupying this space 335 users of other nationalities. Taking in­ tute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, while its new offices, another brownstone 08540) stating which volumes could be do­ ventory results in greater familiarity with on 80th Street, undergo renovation. I Tatti the books and also inspires greater care in nated and/or sold. The Office will under­ has moved to other quarters; the Interna­ handling! The esprit de corps generated by take to expedite the exchange and forward tional Fund for Monuments is expanding this day's cooperative achievement seems the appropriate volumes. At the very least, into the space released. likely to make the volunteer annual inven­ virtue (apfr~) will be the donor's reward. tory a School tradition. Look to your shelves! Preston B. Kavanagh returns to volun­ teer in the office for the second summer. The gingko provides welcome shade over the door and the wisteria continues to in­ vade the drawing room. 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