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Triumph Over Time: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens in Post-War Greece [With DVD]

by Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780876619643
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athen
  • Publisher Imprint: American School of Classical Studies at Athen
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 24
  • Original Price: GBP 13.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: PAP/DVD
  • Item Weight: 87 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Europe / Greece

In 1947, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens commissioned a color movie (Triumph over Time) to accompany its fundraising campaign. Directed by the archaeologist Oscar Broneer and produced by numismatist Margaret Thompson with the aid of staff from Fox Studios, the documentary shows Greece rebounding from the horrors of World War II and the staff of the American School hard at work preparing archaeological sites for presentation to post-war tourists. Footage of excavations at the Athenian Agora and ancient Corinth are mixed with scenes from everyday agricultural life. Famous people in the history of the School and Greece move in and out of the film's frames: King Paul and Queen Frederica attend a public lecture; the Librarian of the Gennadius Library, Shirley H. Weber, shows donor Helene Stathatou some of its priceless manuscripts; Homer A. Thompson, newly appointed Director of the Agora Excavations, displays treasures from the site. Such scenes from the American School's academic and social year show an institution at the forefront of Greece's march back to normality after almost a decade of unrest. In an accompanying essay, Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan, the American School's Archivist, describes the making of the movie, the historical background to its production, and its place in both the institutional history of the ASCSA and the political history of Greece. She presents fascinating excerpts from previously unpublished correspondence and memoirs, as well as contemporary photographs.

Vogeikoff-Brogan, Natalia: - Eleftheria Daleziou is an archivist at the American School Maria Georgopoulou is Director of the School's Gennadius Library Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan is the Doreen C. Spitzer Director of Archives at the School.

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