24 February 2011

Peacemakers

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  One of the galleries at Tiryns, Minio's Castellazo. On 9 October 1480, the Greek kapetanios Krokondelos Kladas led a company of stra...
18 February 2011

Albanian Color

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  Nikolaos Onouphrious ca. 1550 A correspondent sent me a link for  for the eccentric site http://library.nu/ from which you can dow...
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Incantations

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 Jane Carlyle by Thomas Lawrence JENNY KISSED ME Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in. Time, you thie...
12 February 2011

These I have shored against my ruins

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  This is one of the five bookcases in my workroom, one of at least twenty-five or so in the house, but it is difficult to be definitive b...
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06 February 2011

Cyriaco's Kore

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In the early spring of 1430, in Adrianople, Cyriaco of Ancona purchased Chaeonia who had been taken in an Ottoman raid.  Chaeonia may not h...
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02 February 2011

Only soldiers are dying, not the officers

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The Bavarian Lion memorial near the Nauplion cemetery. Photo, DW. Brigitte Eckert translates Bettina Schinas ' view of events around ...
27 January 2011

Pavane for a Dead Princess: Part Six

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At the forty-day μνημόσυνον after Cleofe's death on 18 April 1433, the intellectuals of Mistra came together to give their mo...
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22 January 2011

Houses

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  Detail from a view of the Acropolis, before 1680, from a drawing in Bonn.  Pierre A. MacKay spoke at the Archaeological Institute of...
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16 January 2011

Here, more than anywhere else, patience

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  The view from Bettina's front windows. Ag. Giorgios, Nauplion, drawn by Leo von Klenze, 1834 This continues Brigitte Eckert contribut...