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Gennadeion News A special insert to the newsletter of the american school of classical studies at athens
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Author Vangelis Raptopoulos Donates Papers
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haracterized as “the most creative, the most passionate writer of his generation,” Vangelis Raptopoulos is the first author from the 1980s literary generation who has trusted a significant part of his personal archive (“thirty years of creation,” as he said) to the Archives of the Gennadius Library. We are grateful to him for his generous decision. Vangelis Raptopoulos, born in 1959, is considered to be the pioneer of the “1980s generation.” He first published in 1979 (In Pieces or Κομματάκια), when he was only 20 years old, and established himself as one of Greece’s most promising authors. His next two publications, Toll Gates or Διόδια (1982) and The Cicadas or Τα τζιτζίκια, completed a trilogy-team portrait of his generation. The Cicadas also came out in English. To date, continued on page G4
Vangelis Raptopoulos
Exhibition of Early American Archaeological Photographs Debuts at Library
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he archaeological photographs of John Henry Haynes (1849–1910), the father of American archaeological photography, are being exhibited in the Basil Room of the Gennadius Library from November 27, 2012 to January 20, 2013 under the title “Picturing Anatolia: The Photographs of John Henry Haynes.” All but unknown today, Haynes served as photographer for the American excavations at Assos (1881–83) and at Nippur in Mesopotamia (1889–1900). In 1884 and 1887 he traveled across Asia Minor with a camera, photographing historical and archaeological sites, many for the first time.
The exhibit situates the photographic exploration of Anatolia within the context of the growing American cultural presence in the eastern Mediterranean marked by the foundation of the ASCSA in 1881; it concludes with the excavations of Colophon and Sardis in 1921–22, showcasing important material from the ASCSA Archives. The exhibition is curated by Robert Ousterhout and Maria Georgopoulou, with the support of Ioli Vingopoulou and Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan. An afternoon colloquium in Cotsen Hall introduced the exhibition to the public, culminating in a keynote address delivered by Robert
The Hittite shrine of Eflatunpinar (‘Plato’s Spring’), near Lake Beys¸ehir in central Anatolia (1884 –1887). Photograph by Haynes, Harvard University, Aga Khan Archive
Ousterhout of the University of Pennsylvania. Other speakers at the colloquium were Stavros Anestidis of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies, Anna Ballian of the Benaki Museum, Jack Davis of the University of Cincinnati, historian Ioanna Petropoulou, Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan of the ASCSA, Gennadeion Director Maria Georgopoulou, and Yiannis Papadopoulos of Panteion University. e