Surprised by Time

These are souls in Abraham's bosom, but it is the closest image I can find for  τατα. Τατα is so variously and inconsistently ...

Early in 1465, Thomas Palaiologos directed that his children be sent from Corfù to Italy. He had gone to Italy in the winter of 1460....

Sphrantzes wrote: "[In December 1453] the most impious and pitiless sultan, with his own hand, took the life of my dearest son ...

  The Palaiologos family, 1408.   [Note: I have obtained new information which has changed my mind somewhat about Manuel as a father....

Κροκοντηλος – Krokontēlos Karitena     This is not the name Κροκόδειλος used in Mazaris and Sphrantzes for "crocodile," alt...

Constantine Palaiologos and Georgios Sphrantzes Fotis Kontoglou, Town  Hall, Athens There is no surviving contemporary portrait o...

Byzantine plaque placed in modern times to mark the crowning of Constantine XI, which probably never happened. Ag. Demetrios, Mistra...