The American School of Classical Studies in Athens
The Classics Department

The American School of Classical Studies in Athens offers two summer-sessions each summer of approximately six weeks duration. The programs offer an intense introduction to the topography and monuments of Ancient, Byzantine and Modern Greece. From a base in Athens, students travel to most of the major sites and give two oral reports on topics assigned by the director. There are three extended trips outside of Athens. These generally include six days on Crete, 10 days in the Peloponnese and a week in Northern Greece, and normally cover ca. sixty sites and museums, including Knossos, Phaistos, Corinth, Isthmia, Nemea, Mycenae, Tiryns, Epidauros, Sparta, Mystra, Pylos, Bassai, Olympia, Thebes, Delphi, Thermopylae, Dimini and Sesklo, Vergina, Pella, and Olynthus. A limited number of scholarships are available from the School itself, and from other organizations. Eta Sigma Phi, the National Classics Honors Society awards scholarships for the American School's program available to Seniors for the summer after graduation and for several subsequent years. See the Eta Sigma Phi Scholarship student's Description of her Summer 2001 tour.