American School of Classical Studies at Athens

The Gennadius library was founded in 1926 to house the 30,000-book collection of Greek diplomat Joannes Gennadius. In addition to books, Gennadius also collected photos and other ephemera (e.g. clippings from newspapers and books, engravings, pamphlets, broadsides, and invitations) that he assembled onto large scrapbooks. With the support of European Union funding, part of this complex material that focuses on history, topography, archaeology, costume, architecture, art, and journalism has been recently catalogued and digitized, and is freely available to all online.

Carthage, renowned as one of the wealthiest and most powerful cities of the ancient Mediterranean—and remembered chiefly as Rome’s fierce rival—has long been studied through the lens of the Punic Wars.

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