Odysseus and Naucicaa
Twenty five years since we crossed to begin our excavations at Butrint in Albania and had our excitement dashed by our Albanian...
Panormos becomes Fiskardo
A new excavation at Fiskardo has drawn me back to this little port in north-east Kefalonia. The dig has brought more tombs to light. The...
Sailing to Ithaka
A typhoon passed across Greece last night with tragic consequences in Thrace. The stormy weather brought new light to the Straits of...
An earthquake heralds a new Government
At 6.49 this morning a truck seemed to crash into the upper floor of our house. Half awake, I knew instantly what it was. I rushed to the...
Kastro Apalirou, Naxos
I climbed up to the mountainous peak of Kastro Apalirou in central Naxos eleven years ago. A decade later David Hill told me about the...
Pilgrimage to Keros
In 1963 a graduate student landed on the remote island of Keros and discovered a surface spread of broken Cycladic marble figurines. It...
Naxos – Chora
I am passing through the Cycladic island of Naxos on my way to visit Colin Renfrew’s excavations on Keros. The little airport defines one...
Rediscovering Pronnoi (Kefalonia)
The murky photos of medieval remains in Klavs Randsborg’s books on Kefalonia had long lingered in my mind, as had his sense that Pronnoi...
