• DOI:10.1126/SCIENCE.NS-9.219.354
• Corpus ID: 35017184

THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS.

@article{WhiteTHEAS,
  title={THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS.},
  author={J S White},
  journal={Science},
  volume={9 219},
  pages={
          354-5
        }
}

• J. S. White
• Published 15 April 1887
• History
• Science

continued on page G4 The Gennadius Library Archives has received a valuable addition to the Elias Petropoulos Papers from his companion Mary Koukoule. Consisting of 2075 photographs illustrating “Ellados Koimeteria” (Greek Graveyards), the material was collected, along with much else on modern Greek cemeteries, by Elias Petropoulos (1926– 2005) over a period of more than thirty years. For Petropoulos, mapping the graveyards was a “life-long project” aimed at depicting all cultural aspects of death in modern Greek society, although he did not live to see his work published. Petropoulos viewed the cemeteries as a type of city, “with its public squares and its lower class districts...its funeral processions, its own architecture and planning.”