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"Rapport de Synthese," Sciences Societies et Phenomenes Urhains dans le
Monde Arabe (Casablanca, 1997), pp. 295-298.
2. "Byzantine Court Culture from 829 to 1204," Dumbarton Oaks Research
Li/7rary and Collection (Washington, D.C., 1997), pp. 115-129.
3. "The Mosque, a Grove of Columns," Daidalos 65 (1997), pp. 80-85.
4. "Introduction," in F. Richard, Splendeurs Persanes (Paris, 1997).
5. A. Femandez-Puertas, The Alhamhra, Times Literary Supplement (1997),
pp. 12-13.
Together with Professor Michael Cook of Princeton University, and with the support of
the Kress Foundation, he organized three seminars at the Institute. The meetings were
held over one day and a half, attended by 30 to 40 people - faculty and members ot the
Institute for Advanced Study, faculty and students from Princeton University and else-
where. (See the "Record of Events" for further details.)
PROFESSOR CHRISTIAN HABICHT saw his book Athens from Alexander to Antony
published by the Harvard University Press; a Greek edition was published by Odysseas
Publications in Athens. Work on a French and a Russian edition is under way. He wrote
a new Preface to his Pausanias' Guide to Ancient Greece (The Sather Classical Lectures,
vol. 50), of which a new edition is forthcoming this fall from the University of California
Press. He also worked on unpublished documents from the island of Cos and submitted a
major manuscript, to be published in Chiron, vol. 28, 1998. He gave lectures at the
University of Colorado, Boulder, in September and at the annual convention of classicists
at Chicago in December. At Princeton University he directed a session on Professor Ma's
seminar on hellenistic epigraphy. He was invited to lecture at the British Academy in July
1998 and to give a series of seminars for junior colleagues at the Kommission fiir Alte
Geschichte und Epi^aphik (Munich) in October. He participated as one of several invited
scholars from various countries in a two-day conference on "Efficiency and modernity of
epigraphical studies at the turn of the 20th century," held in October 1997 at the Berlin-
Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
He continued serving on editorial boards, on two committees of the American Philo-
sophical Society, and on the board of supervisors for the Inscnptiones Graecae.
Besides his books, his publications included "Roman Citizens in Athens," in The Roman-
ization of Athens (M. C. Hoff and S. Rotroff, Eds.), Exeter 1997, pp. 9-17; "Titus Flavius
Metrobios, Periodonike aus lasos," in Festschrift Karl Christ, 1998, and a review of
Cambridge Ancient History, 2nd ed., vol. VI: The Fourth Century B.C., in Gnomon 70,
1998, 130-135.
He was elected as the first Life Member of the American Society of Greek and Latin
Epigraphy and Honorary Counselor of the Archaeological Society at Athens, founded in
1837. His book Athens from Alexander to Antony was chosen by the London Hellenic Soci-
ety as the winner of the Criticos Prize for 1997, the first year that award is being conferred.
PROFESSOR IRVING LAVIN continued to serve as a member of the National Commit-
tee for the History of Art, of the Porter Prize Committee of the College Art Association of
America, and of the Scientific Council of Modena Capitale, a year-long commemoration
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