Surprised by Time

In the fall of 1454, Mehmed II sent a letter to thirteen archons of the Morea, accepting their offer of loyalty to him. They were "Kyr...

Ag. Marina is in a valley behind the fortress of Kazarma, up the road from the Mycenean bridge. The chairs suggest how very small it is. I...

Continuing a little longer with the topic of John VIII's headgear . This is Manuel Laskaris Chatzikis who died in 1445 and was buried ...

When Cyriaco of Ancona was in Constantinople , he sketched as best he could the great bronze statue of Justinian (527-565). The statue was...

This is how Ag. Thomas looked in 1978 and this is how history happens. Ag. Thomas is a sweet small church, up many steps above the road lead...

  --> Peter of Argos, whose feastday is May 3, was born in Constantinople in 855 and died in Argos at the age of seventy. He came from ...

The name of the young woman who posed for this 1310 fresco is unknown, but she stands in here for her contemporary, the younger Isabelle Vil...

In September or October of 1429, Despot Theodoros II wrote a poem to his parents, who are shown here in a manuscript portrait from about 14...

William Gell was not perfect. In his Itinerary of the Morea (1817) He heard Merbaka as Mebacca, Chonika as Phonika, and identified as a wel...

The picture is of a chapel with vestiges--here a classical column built in, just right of the lower center. William Gell noted this site a...