Surprised by Time

Watch, Salvador Dali  The New Year is a fluid concept if you live, as I do, mostly in the 15th century.  For the Byzantines, it is 1 Septe...

Great night, mother-night among the nights of the ages, cradle of the Titans' offspring, you who pour your snow swift and thick this ...

Many of the houses in my neighborhood have accompanying presences.  Here are some you might notice if you were walking past, though you w...

Continuing Coriolano Cippico's account of the war Pietro Mocenigo took to the Turkish coast in 1472. The war had began in Greece i...

  Pantanassa, Mistra The Green Man -- or Wild Man or Woodwose --is a creature of European folklore and imagery, found frequently in churche...

Bettina Schinas née von Savigny Brigitte Eckert has contributed a section from her translation of Bettina Schinas' letters from Greece...

A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, T...

House on Aigina where Miller was based "The ancient houses in this island are now all cleared from the dirt and rubbish which fill...