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Marguerite of Austria, The Great Mother of Europe
Marguerite of Austria, The Great Mother of Europe

For Marguerite of Austria it was not her own choice to travel. Her constant movements were her father’s decision, the Emperor Maximilian I of Habsburg. Showing great equanimity, the princess obeyed her father’s…

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Barbara AthanassiadisJanuary 7, 2019
When the Tempest Makes you Dream, Malta
When the Tempest Makes you Dream, Malta

When I arrived in the first days of December, the wind was so strong that the street lamps swayed and the sea was swollen and wild.  Valletta, the capital, seemed to be threatened by this storm, so violent…

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Barbara AthanassiadisJanuary 7, 2019
The House of Augustus on the Palatine Hill, Rome, Italy
The House of Augustus on the Palatine Hill, Rome, Italy

The truth is, I want to resemble Augustus, to have something of his character; to succeed, like him, in whatever goal I set myself, while simultaneously maintaining, also like him, a low profile, which I find more difficult…

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Barbara AthanassiadisJanuary 7, 2019
On the Path of the Borghese, Rome, Italy
On the Path of the Borghese, Rome, Italy

I listened to Isabella carefully as she was telling me all this standing in front of Pauline’s Bonaparte, Princess Borghese, famous statue in the Borghese Gallery. She was depicted as Venus, reclining on …

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Barbara AthanassiadisJanuary 7, 2019
Venetian Sultanas in the Harem, Venice, Italy
Venetian Sultanas in the Harem, Venice, Italy

I spoke to him of Nûr Banû, the sultana whose name meant ‘lady of light’ and who was not a myth, but the daughter of the Venetian governor of Corfu. When…

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Barbara AthanassiadisJanuary 7, 2019
The Fork of the Byzantine Princess, Venice, Italy
The Fork of the Byzantine Princess, Venice, Italy

Indeed it was a meal at the Ducal Palace in Venice, where Maria Argyre had arrived as a newlywed, after her marriage to the Doge’s son had taken place in Constantinople…

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Barbara AthanassiadisJanuary 7, 2019
Venice’s strongholds on the Aegean Sea, Greece
Venice’s strongholds on the Aegean Sea, Greece

I wished the Venetians had been like this, and not closed themselves off in their castle-states on the islands and on the capes of the Aegean, with the winged lion of the Serenissima dominating the battlements…

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Barbara AthanassiadisJanuary 7, 2019
Delos, The Island of Apollo, Greece
Delos, The Island of Apollo, Greece

A volcanic explosion from the water's depths - and Delos was born into the heart of the Aegean. Or maybe it was that the waters subsided as one of the last geological phenomena of the area, and the island…

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Barbara AthanassiadisJanuary 6, 2019
Myths – History – Reality, Corfu, Greece
Myths – History – Reality, Corfu, Greece

And there was Ulysses, weary from all the trials and tribulations he’ d endured. Poseidon’ s fury washed him up on a sandy beach of the very civilized Phaeacians, and Nausicaa sees him and is not repulsed by his nakedness and filth, as her friends…

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Barbara AthanassiadisJanuary 6, 2019
The legendary Palace of Minos, Knossos, Crete, Greece
The legendary Palace of Minos, Knossos, Crete, Greece

“The ruins were found after just a few weeks' digging.  He was lucky,” my Scotsman companion said, and I immediately thought he probably knew Evans' story better than that of the English kings. “He marvelled at… 

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Barbara AthanassiadisJanuary 6, 2019
Between Glory and Catastrophe, Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Between Glory and Catastrophe, Acropolis, Athens, Greece

Why did Mehmet II, the conqueror of Constantinopole, not touch the Parthenon, and Morosini, the Venetian admiral, destroy it?  The answer is that the Sultan had had…

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Barbara AthanassiadisJanuary 4, 2019
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