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Detail from Carpaccio, Triumph of St. George .  Bartolomeo Minio twice had to negotiate the dividing line between Argos and Naupl...

British troops passing Palamidi, going to Tolo. LIFE Magazine.   Continuing the accounts from last week : Bernard Ryan, 2/1st Aust...

  Destroying equipment at Nauplion. In the summer of 1978, swimming just outside the harbor at Nauplion, I glimpsed...

  Agia Sophia, Mistra Nikeforas Cheilas said:   When the appointed day came, the day on which our Saviour consented for our sake to ...

Some who minister at The Church in the Street: Georgia, Georgia, Irene, Helen, Agnes Mary, Vassilis   [At 11 minutes in this Swedis...

Drawing by Gentile Bellini, ca. 1480.   When The City was taken in May 1453, the Morea went into panic.  It was said that both the d...

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 ...