Carl W. Blegen

Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan is Doreen Canaday Spitzer Archivist at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Jack L. Davis is Carl W. Blegen Professor of Greek Archaeology at the University of Cincinnati. Vasiliki Florou is Administrative Officer at the General Management of Alpha Bank.

‘Effectively illustrated with photographs and drawings, this book illuminates the interpersonal and professional relationships of Blegen and his associates and provides insights important for both students and scholars.’Mary C. Sturgeon, American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 121, No. 4 (October 2017) ‘This handsome volume [offers] many pleasures that normal biographies rarely provide. For one thing its generous illustrations include facsimiles of correspondence and reproductions of Piet de Jong's wonderful cartoons of famous Aegean scholars (one of these forming the cover of the book). [...]The main service provided by this book is to remind us all that real advances in our understanding of the ancient world are always, to a greater or lesser extent, archaeological; that archaeological fieldwork requires determination, application, cultural sensitivity and a skill set (in excavation and stratigraphy) that few classicists possess.’James Whitley, Cardiff University, Journal of Hellenic Studies 'The contributions...[include] praise, some light-duty prosopography linking Blegen and friends to their equally distinguished peers (and occasionally to students), some veiled references to Blegen household arrangements (and equally broad assurances), and enough references to intrigue Blegenophiles and historians of American archaeology alike.' (Bill Caraher, The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, March 11, 2015)

• Illustrations "On His Feet and Ready to Dig": Carl Willaim Blegen   Jack L. Davis and Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan The Life of Carl W. Blegen from a Grass Roots Perspective   Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan From the Mud of Peirene to Mastering Stratigraphy: Carl Blegen in the Corinthia and Argolid   Ioulia Tzonou-Herbst Tge "Govs" of Mycenaean Archaeology: The Friendship and Collaboration of Carl W. Blegen and Alan J.B. Wace as Seen through Their Correspondence   Yannis Fappas The Blegens and the Hills: A Family Affair   Robert L. Pounder "Islanders vs. Mainlanders", "The Mycenae Wars", and Other Short Stories: An Archival Visit to an Old Debate   Yannis Galanakis The House at 9 Ploutarchou Street: A Grape Arbor and a Dense Shadow of Beautiful Meetings   Vasiliki Florou Και ε?ς ?ν?τερα: The Govs in the 1930s   Elizabeth W. French Carl Blegen and Troy   Brian Rose "His Eyes Took on a Far Away Look When he Spoke of Pylos": Carl Blegen and the Excavations at the Palace of Nestor as Seen in the Greek and Foreign Press   Nektarios Karadimas Blegen and the Palace of Nestor: What Took So Long?   Jack L. DAvis Contributors Index