Celebrating 75 Years of Hesperia
2007; American School of Classical Studies at Athens; Volume: 76; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2972/hesp.76.1.1
ISSN1553-5622
Autores Tópico(s)Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
Resumo?espeja76(2co7) CELEBRATING 75 YEARS Pages 1-20 OF HESPERIA The past year marked important milestones in the history of theAmerican School of Classical Studies atAthens (ASCSA): 125 years since the found ing of the School, 80 years since the dedication of the Gennadius Library, and 75 years since excavations under the Schools auspices began in the Athenian Agora. Continuing in the spirit of celebration, we can now also look back with pride at 75 years o?Hesperia. InMarch 1932, Rhys Carpenter, the director of the ASCSA, an nounced the launching of a new journal?Hesperia?intended to "serve as a convenient and accessible means of presenting to our colleagues and to the archaeologically interested public authoritative and definitive accounts of the Schools various enterprises" (Fig. l).The announcement, a handwrit ten letter bound into the first fascicle, made clear that the journal would publish work by "members of the School staff" and especially the results of the newly opened excavations of the Athenian Agora. While remaining true to its original mandate, Hesperia has evolved over the years from an in-house periodical devoted exclusively to publishing the work of theAmerican School to a fully refereed journal with awide reader ship and relevance to classical studies today.The current issue o?Hesperia is larger than usual, a concrete expression of the health of the journal: annual submissions have tripled since 1998, the diversity of articles submitted begins to keep pace with the breadth of the Schools own research profile, and readership has greatly expanded. Hesperias 75th anniversary provides us with an occasion not only for celebration and nostalgia, but also for consideration of the journal's history, and for speculation about its future. In recognition o?Hesperias first 75 years, the 2007 volume will show case the journals traditional strengths?archaeological fieldwork, epigraphy, topography, and the monuments of Greece?while also featuring papers on early democracy, cult iconography, ancient comedy, ceramic technol ogy, funerary practices, Hellenistic architecture, and island colonialism. The chronological and geographical contexts of these articles extend from prehistory to the present, and from Italy to the Black Sea. Articles on the Athenian Agora and Corinth are planned for each issue in 2007, as are reports on other leading excavations and surveys (e.g., Kavousi, Azoria, and Plataiai). ? The American School of Classical Studies at Athens A?*.*, JV JLeAf nr*"t_ >* ?4?t* **e fed C*tt**V?. Pot. ? ?* ? *. +S ** %?*aVPjKt$ *- ^** a?^ ??fc?;h*c, acci S ?nl* ? Figure 1.Open letter from Rhys Carpenter introducing Hesperia. Hesperia 1 (1932), frontispiece CELEBRATING 75 YEARS OF HESPERIA 3 The archives of the ASCSA offer rich opportunities for tracing the intertwined histories o?Hesperia and the School, and an archival article has also been scheduled for each of the four issues of 2007. Fittingly, the first is an essay in this issue by the incoming director of the School, Jack Davis, on the circumstances surrounding the establishment o?Hesperia in 1932, and the implications for the Schools later history. Subsequent articles will explore the "invention ' of Byzantine archaeology at Corinth in the 1920s and 1930s; the use and abuse of the Schliemann Archives; and the beginnings of American study tours in Greece, focusing on a previously unpublished diary ofHarold North Fowler, a student in the first class of the School who went on to become a leading figure in the field. Closing this issue is another departure forHesperia, and one that points to the future: an essay by Josiah Ober and his colleagues exploring the new and transforming landscape of online publication and archiving in classical studies. HISTORY OF THE JOURNAL Fifty years were to pass after its founding before theAmerican School suc cessfully established its own journal?much longer than the time taken by other foreign archaeological schools inAthens.1 The results of the Schools work had previously been published in theAmerican Journalof* Archaeology (AJA) andArt andArchaeology, but asDavis recounts in his essay, strained relations between the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the ASCSA and the perception that AJA would no longer be able to publish accounts of the Schools work in a prompt?or properly scholarly?manner gave incentive to the founding o? Hesperia. The opportunity forAmericans...
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