Surprised by Time

This is the front door of Bettina Schinas' house, opposite. Ag. Giorgios. The door was imported from Trieste, probably just after 1...

Elizabeth I, the “sieve” portrait.  Quentin Metsys the Younger, 1583.  Pinacotecta Nazionale di Siena. I have become add...

Demetrios Pepagomenos was the second of the four speakers at Cleofe's memorial. I have written about these monodies at other tim...

Basilissa of the Tsavelas herd, Karitena, 1987. We tend to think of “the” scapegoat, but in the original Leviticus text, there ar...

This is an entry for people who like lists.  Over the last several years I have collected all the names I can find of the dynatoi in the Mo...

Every spring I know less about what I am seeing, or, the ratio between what I know and what I am seeing is smaller. I had not befo...

Ms. Plut.70.06 in the Laurentian Library of Florence ,  the concluding page of the 1318 Herodotos belonging to George Gemistos Plet...