Surprised by Time

  This song by Nikos Gatsos was meant to be for the name-day of Theodoros Kolokotronis, but I have not been able to learn which Ag. T...

Dying child, fresco of King David Voronet Monastery, Romania   In 1400, Manuel and Helena Palaiologos left Constantinople on a Ve...

I have been sickened by events in Athens, and Agrinion and Lamia and Thessalonike and elsewhere.  I remember a conversation with ...

Two hundred and eighteen blogs ago, I wrote about the unfortunate situation of the Minio brothers . Alvise, Almoro, and Francesco Minio...

Constantine Palaiologos and Georgios Sphrantzes Fotis Kontoglou, Town  Hall, Athens There is no surviving contemporary portrait o...

The Palaiologos cross between four firesteel s ( πυρέκβολα ) each resembling a B which are also said to have originally been Bs that we...

Dancers, based on a drawing by Cyriaco.  He may have been trying to draw these Samothraki dancers . In August 1446, Cyriaco of Ancon...

Constance  Austin Shaw, 1922  The house was looking dull, once the Christmas traces were removed and too much grey January was lurk...