Surprised by Time

All the pictures are taken from the exhibition catalog, The Look of Love . I never knew there was a whole world of eye miniatu...

+ θεόδορος ἐν Χ(ριστ)ῷ τῷ Θ(ε)ῷ εὐσεβὴς  δ εσπότης Παλαιολόγος ὁ πορφυρογέννητος + Signature of Theodoros II Palaiologos On 29 May ...

Κροκοντηλος – Krokontēlos Karitena     This is not the name Κροκόδειλος used in Mazaris and Sphrantzes for "crocodile," alt...

Turkish wall photographed by Boryana Katsarova National Geographic   I keep being asked what I am giving up for Lent. I am giv...

Bat Hawk , Joseph Wolf ca. 1860                        HAWK ROOSTING                               I sit in the top of the wood, my...

  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...