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Jacopo Barbarigo
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Jacopo Barbarigo
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08 January 2014
What happened to the archons?
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Probable representation of an archon, Andreas Pavias, Crucifixion, late 15th C. Archons essentially disappear in 1460 with t...
12 April 2013
The leading men of the Morea
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Detail, Klontzas, Passion The earliest documentary evidence for Krokodylos Kladas seems to be a letter from Jacopo Barbarigo of 25 J...
16 October 2012
Stratioti, numbers, horses
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Chesepritri* off the coast of Candia, south of Tolo. Mid-16th C, redrawn 18th C. From the Bibliothèque Nationale , Paris, identifi...
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28 July 2012
The Frescos of Longanikos
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Main street, Longanikos. Longanikos is a wonderfully severe town, with massive stone buildings and ruins on the steep hillside above ...
17 September 2008
A Fate Worse than Death
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Rossini's opera, The Siege of Corinth -- L'assedio di Corinto , is not an experience to be undertaken lightly, say, the way one woul...
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