American Philological Association

The American Philological Association (APA ) is a non-profit association founded in 1869, North American researchers in the field of ancient Greek and Roman culture, history.

While the club originally entertained research projects on different languages ​​, she specialized over time in Latin and Greek, came into existence with time, the variety of philological club of modern languages ​​. The Journal of the Society, the Transactions of the American Philological Association ( TAPA, according to some scientific formulas also Tapha ), is a leading international publication series of classical philology.

The club holds its annual meeting in January from jointly with the Archaeological Institute of America. It has its seat at the University of Pennsylvania.