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[Agora Publication] AgoraPicBk 8 (1963): Garden Lore of Ancient Athens

Burr Thompson, D. Griswold, R. E ... The American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... In the spring, the ground of the Agora archaeological park is covered in poppies and daisies while poplars and oaks shade many of the pathways. Some of these plants are wild and some were deliberately ... 1963 ... Its color plates also provide a useful guide to identifying modern Greek vegetation.

[Agora Publication] Corinth V: The Roman Villa

Shear, Theodore Leslie ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Excavated in 1925, the Roman villa at Corinth is famous for its well-preserved mosaics, showing goat herdsmen and other pastoral themes. Of rectangular design, they are curtailed or supplemented to fit ... 1930 ... The book is notable for its large size and portfolio format, with large-scale color plates following loose-leaf text pages.

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[Agora Publication] Agora III: Literary and Epigraphical Testimonia

Wycherley, R. E ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Here are presented all the ancient written references, both literary and epigraphical, to the Agora (including its environs) and its monuments. The introduction summarizes chronologically the authors cited, ... 1957 ... The index of authors gives dates and editions as well as passages and inscriptions cited, and is followed by an index of subjects. The plates show plans of the Agora and its environs and of the route of Pausanias.

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[Agora Publication] Agora XX: The Church of the Holy Apostles

Frantz, M. A ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The Church of the Holy Apostles stands at an important crossroads in the southeast corner of the area of the ancient Agora. The earliest church on the site, built over a wall of the 5th-century B.C. Mint ... 1971 ... The architectural type is studied in relation to other churches in Greece, and the restoration is described. The plates give the author’s photos of the structure before, during, and after restoration and drawings of elevations, sections, and plans.

[Agora Publication] Corinth I.6: The Springs: Peirene, Sacred Spring, Glauke

Hill, Bert H ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The two springs in the Corinthian Agora, Peirene and the Sacred Spring, which were dug early in the excavation of Corinth, were studied in exhaustive detail for more than 40 years by Bert Hodge Hill as ... 1964 ... After introductory testimonia and identification, Peirene is described in its numerous periods (several Greek, seven Roman, Byzantine, and Modern) with a special section on Supply Tunnels and an analysis of paintings by Prentice Duell who did the watercolors from which the color plates were made. The whole sanctuary connected with the Sacred Spring is treated topographically, each part (roadway, temple, triglyph friezes, reservoir, fountain house, bases, terraces) described and then the three main periods outlined.

[Agora Publication] Broneer (1956): The North Slope Krater, New Fragments

Broneer, O ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The calyx-krater of Exekias, first published in 1937,1 was discovered at the bottom of a well in the American School excavations on the North slope of the Acropolis in Athens. The circumstances of discovery ... 1956 ... The new fragments, which join the restored part of the vase, as shown in Plates 50 and 51, a, add new interest to the krater as a whole and enable us to appreciate the composition in two vital areas more fully than before. ... Verdelis for permission to republish the photographs on Plate 51, b-d, which I received from the files of the Archaelolgical Society in Athens through the kindness of Miss Artemisia Giannoulatou; and to Miss Alison Frantz for taking the photographs for Plates 50 and 51, a.