Surprised by Time

There is no image for this posting because photography was forbidden but imagine a wonder dancing, to unheard music. The Acropolis Museum is...

On 22 March 1451, an anonymous Naupliote wrote a poem from a Venetian prison in one of those towers at the upper left. The poem is written i...

This is a snip from the oldest surviving map of Nauplion , published in 1571 by Giovanni Francesco Camocio , in the celebratory wake of the ...

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...