2025 ASCSA Summer Travel-Study Programs

The Summer Session program of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens is a six-week travel study course designed for those who wish to become acquainted with Greece and its major monuments, and to improve their understanding of the country’s landscape, history, material culture, and literature from antiquity to the present.

The 2025 Summer Session runs from June 16 to July 30, 2025, and its Director is Dr. Tobias Krapf, the Assistant Director of the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece.

Eligibility: Enrollment is open to graduate and advanced undergraduate students, and to high school teachers and college/university faculty of Classics and related subjects. Enrollment is limited to twenty participants. The language of instruction is English. Open to all nationalities.

For more information and how to apply, link here.

The Summer Seminars of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens are 18-day programs that focus on specific cultural themes, historical periods, or geographical regions. The Seminars are led by exceptional scholars of Classics and related fields. Under their direction, participants study texts, visit archaeological sites and museums, and engage with expert guest speakers in order to deepen their understanding of Greece’s landscape, history, literature, and material culture.

For Summer 2025, the two seminars are:

People and Places of Ancient Philosophy (June 9 to June 27, 2025)
The origins and development of ancient philosophy are intertwined with the history, topography, and material culture of democratic Athens in the classical and Hellenistic periods. This seminar will resituate the “ancient philosophers” and their intellectual traditions in the physical world from which they hail: democratic Athens of the classical and Hellenistic periods. This course will include trips to Thebes, Delphi, Olympia, Pylos, and Sparta. Taught by Professor Geoff Bakewell (Rhodes College).

Settlers and Traders: Corinth and Its Apoikiai in W. Greece and S. Albania (July 3 to July 21, 2025) 
A significant city-state throughout the Archaic and Classical periods, Corinth remained strategically important during the Hellenistic period until the Roman sack in 146 BCE. After it was revived as a Roman colony in 44 BCE, it continued to be an active population and trade center for the rest of the Roman Empire. Corinth is especially important for its role in Greek settlements (apoikiai) overseas. Visiting both metropolis and its apoikiai, from Corinth to western Greece, Corcyra and up to Apollonia and Epidamnus in modern Albania, this seminar will address topics of settlement, “colonization,” trade, and culture. It will be taught by Professors Georgia Tsouvala (Illinois State University) and Lee L. Brice (Illinois Wesleyan University).

Eligibility: Enrollment is open to graduate and advanced undergraduate students, as well as to high school and college/university teachers of classics and related subjects. Each seminar is limited to twenty participants. The language of instruction is English. Open to all nationalities.

For more information and how to apply, link here.