The University began operating with a few dozen male students. In the succeeding decades, the students gradually increased in numbers, making their presence more noticeable. In 1890 the first woman enrolled in the School of Philosophy, Ioanna Stefanopoli, with more women joining in the following years. Since then, and especially since the 1960s, millions of students frequented the amphitheaters of the University of Athens, and played an active role in the city's life and streets, the student hangouts, even in literature. It is not a uniform population. Under the common attribute of a male or a female student hid a multitude of different identities: men and women, people from all over Greece and abroad, from affluent and low-income family surroundings, «famous» και «anonymous». Furthermore, at the same time, students who studied in the same schools belonged to different political fractions, clubs, and societies. An active population from different backgrounds associated its life with the University through wonderful but also difficult times.
Maria Polydouri as a Law School student in 1921.
Historical Archive of the University of Athens.
February 20, 1921
«Here I am at the University in the hall of the Law School. I climbed one by one its sacred steps, deeply emotional. I no longer had the cursed faint-heartiness; pride was inflating my soul and elevating my spirit. I will always remember the reception my fellow students gave me—continuous applause (it is their tradition for every introduction). Someone secretly asked me if I was a widow since I was wearing black. I laughed. It was the truth! If he had guessed what was in my soul, he was right to call it a widow...»
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Maria Polydouri, "Life with a passion..." Athenian calendar 1921-1922, 1925.
Eleftherios Venizelos' Diploma from the Royal High School of Syros, 1880.
Athens University History Museum.
the receipt of the fee deposited for his enrollment in the University of Athens, 1880.
Athens University History Museum.
Aghios Nektarios' scholarship to study at the School of Theology of the University of Athens, 1883.
Historical Archive of the University of Athens.
«The New Student», drawing by Emilios Prosalentis, 1896.
Album of the Olympic Games 1896. Athens University History Museum.
«The Older Student», drawing by Emilios Prosalentis, 1896.
Album of the Olympic Games 1896. Athens University History Museum.
Notebook with handwritten notes from the Art History course of Professor Antonios Economou, 1899-1900.
Athens University History Museum.
The doctoral degree examinations of Nikolaos Kazantzakis (1883-1957), 1906.
Ηistorical Archive of the University of Athens.
The 1908 graduates of the School of Theology in a class photograph dedicated to the schoolmaster Archimandrite Chrysostomos Papadopoulos.
Athens University History Museum.
Page from the registration book of the University students, the academic year 1921-1922.
Historical Archive of the University of Athens.
Examinations results at the Law School in the academic year 1923-1924. Entry No 30 corresponds to the student Ilias Iliou.
Historical Archive of the University of Athens.
Female students at the university student hall in the 1920s.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University Club 1923-1976, Athens 1977.
The reading room at the University Club, 1930s.
Historical Archive of the University of Athens.
The University Club at Hippocratous and Academias streets in the 1930s.
Historical Archive of the University of Athens.
University of Athens students at the Student Club's Camp in Poros, the early 1930s.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University Club 1923-1976, Athens 1977.
Students are boarding the ship for an educational trip to Paris, 1931.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University Club 1923-1976, Athens 1977.
Group photograph of students outside the University Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary ('Kapnikarea'), 1934.
ERT S.A. Archive – Petros Poulidis Collection.
The Law School file of the student Andreas Papandreou, 1937-1940.
Historical Archive of the University of Athens.
The doctoral dissertation of Annie Apostolaki, 1938.
Historical Archive of the University of Athens.
Results of the final degree examinations of the Law School senior, Konstantinos Mitsotakis (1918-2017), April 19, 1940.
Historical Archive of the University of Athens.
The 1940-1941 senior students' application to the rectorate of the University regarding the final degree examinations of their schools, May 15, 1941. Law School student, Cornelius Castoriadis, is among the applicants.
Historical Archive of the University of Athens.
The final degree examinations results of the School of Theology student Makarios Kykotis, later to be known as the Archbishop and first President of the Republic of Cyprus, Makarios. March 31, 1944.
Historical Archive of the University of Athens.
Monthly bus-ticket booklet, 1966.
Historical Archive of the University of Athens.
Reception for the first-year students in the ceremony hall of the main building of the University, 1976.
Historical Archive of the University of Athens.
The new reading room of the Law School Library at the Old Chemistry Laboratory.
Law School Library.
University Studies Guidelines, 1838.
Athens University History Museum.
University Studies Guidelines, 1857.
Historical Archives of the University of Athens.
University Studies Guidelines, 1915.
Historical Archives of the University of Athens.
University Studies Guidelines, 1956.
Historical Archives of the University of Athens.
Student identity card of later-to-become Medical School professor, Georgios Pantazis (1906-1973).
Athens University History Museum.
Studies notebook of L. Katsaras, student at the Pharmaceutical Department of the School of Physics and Mathematics, 1926.
Athens University History Museum.
Identity card of Magdalene Petrou, student at the Department of Physics of the School of Physics and Mathematics, 1964.
Ιστορικό Αρχείο ΕΚΠΑ.
Identification card of Th. Koumouras, student at the Dental School, 1925.
Athens University History Museum.
Erasmus students' day trip to the Temple of Poseidon in Sounion, 2018.
The Orientation Day took place in February 2017, in the context of ERASMUS+.
