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The film, released in 1938, retells the story of the fight between the Teutonic Order and the people of Novgorod led by 20-year old Prince Alexander Nevsky in 1242. The event was directed by Sergei Eisenstein. The music score was written by Sergei…

After a fire in at the Doge’s Palace in Venice in 1577, some of the new decorations included paintings that celebrated important events in Venetian history. This oil sketch was for a large painting showing the Byzantine emperor Alexios IV Angelos…

Book XXI: Achilles fights with the river Scamandrus  vv. 367-381: After Scamandrus’s lament, Hera asks Hephaestus to stop burning its waters

Formerly in the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, now in the Turkish Province of Osmaniye. This Castle was deeded by the Armenian King Leo I (confusingly, also called Leo II, and sometimes Levon I/II) to the Teutonic Knights in 1212, and was subsequently…

Ampullae like this one were used by pilgrims to bring home water or oil from the great pilgrimage site for Saint Menas, said to be a late-third-century Egyptian Roman soldier who was martyred for his Christian faith. He is shown between the two…

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