British School at Athens
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The British School at Athens was created in 1886 in Athens, Greece, as a home for British Classical scholars working abroad. It is now a major international center for Classical scholarship and houses one of the world's foremost classical libraries.
In 1878, Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, the Professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow (later to become the Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge), proposed the idea of a British research institute to be based in Athens. He was impressed by the French and German institutes that were already established there.
[edit] Bibliography
- Helen Waterhouse, The British School at Athens: the First Hundred Years. London: British School at Athens 1986.
- Eleni Calligas & James Whitley, On Site: British Archaeologists in Greece. Athens: Motibo 2005.
[edit] External links
- British School official website. See Michael Boyd's detailed article on the institutes's history.
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