American School of Classical Studies at Athens

 Ancient Greece is generally considered the foundational culture of Western civilization, but is its relationship with globalization even more complex and important than previously thought?

"Greece: Beginnings" with Peter Frankopan (Lecture One of the Thalia Potamianos Lecture Series) will answer this compelling question and more. We are just one week away from this much-anticipated event, so please join us at 7:00 p.m. EEST (Greece) / 12:00 p.m. EDT (U.S.) on Thursday, October 7, 2021, in Cotsen Hall or online at http://ascsa.edu.gr/livestream. This lecture series is hosted by the Gennadius Library and will also be simulcast in Greek. For more information, please visit https://bit.ly/3oa9fjX.

Dr. Peter Frankopan, best-selling and award-winning author of "The Silk Roads" and Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford, will examine the role that Greece, Greek culture, literature, and language have played over the course of more than two and a half millennia. However, rather than exploring the familiar and limited Mediterranean context, he will look at it from a global perspective, allowing not only a better understanding of world history but of Greece itself.

Guests attending Cotsen Hall are required to wear masks and present valid COVID-19 vaccination certificates or certificates of illness (valid for 180 days) along with ID.

Dr. Frankopan is Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford, where he is Stavros Niarchos Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. He is a world-renowned historian and author of the best-selling and award-winning book, "The Slik Roads."

Dr. Peter Frankopan's "The Silk Roads" was described as “magnificent” (Sunday Times) and “not just the most important history book in years, but the most important in decades” (Berliner Zeitung). A The New York Times Best Seller, it has topped the non-fiction charts all around the world, including in the U.K., India, and China. It was also named Daily Telegraph’s History Book of the Year and one of Sunday Times’ books of the decade (2010–2019).

Cotsen Hall, which was named in honor of Lloyd Cotsen (its benefactor who was a great philhellene and School trustee), serves as the main cultural center of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

American School of Classical Studies at Athens