29 March 2011

The Nauplion Petition

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Detail from the Camoccio map of Nauplion, showing the piers and the route up to Akro-Nauplion (See Section 8 below) The same day the Si...
23 March 2011

The Argos Petition

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Greeks, by Erhard Reuwich, 1455-1490.   This picture has been overused in blogs, but there are  so few contemporary pic...
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18 March 2011

Non-Invasive Archaeology

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 The street where we live. On occasion I follow the lead of Kostis Kourelis and Bill Caraher and engage in non-invasive archaeology in the...
13 March 2011

"the valor of our stratioti"

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  Sketch of a Turk, Gentile Bellini, 1480. A couple of years after Minio arranged for pardons for the stratioti who participated in the ...
07 March 2011

Houses: Part Two

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Thomas Hope Capuchin Convent & Lantern of Demosthenes at Athens (click to enlarge) Several weeks ago Pierre MacKay wrote about his di...
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02 March 2011

Outstanding infinite excellence

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Bettina Savigny-Schinas was invited into Greek families on private occasions and to witness particularly women’s daily life in a way foreig...
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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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