Surprised by Time

    Opium poppy, narcissus, polion. Ps. Apuleius Herbal MS Ashmole 1431 ff. 15v-16r. Bodleian Library, Oxford. The manuscript is more...

  Agia Fotini, Mantineia, Arkadia. North side. I know very little about Ag. Fotini at Mantineia.  We stopped there, briefly, so most ...

When John Palaiologos sailed to  Italy in the winter of 1437 for the Council of Union, it was with Venetian ga...

  Aerial view of the (modern) Venetian Argolid. Once the peace settlement for the Venetian-Ottoman war had been put in writin...

Tugra of Mehmed II on the c ahd-name establishing peace with Venice, 25 January 1478 m.v . The c ahd-name was a statement of terms ...

Detail from an icon of Ag. Menas, Emmanuel Lampardos, 16th C. Istituto Ellenico, Venice What happened to the stud farm is a good que...

Handprints from when I was 9 and my brother was 4. A recent post by Kostis Kourelis reminded me of visit to Argos in 1978.  I ...

  The churches of the Monastery of the Pantokrator, now the Zeyrek Çamii, where the last Palaiologoi were buried. The Byzantine Stu...