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The coastal landscape of Chalcidice, a few kilometers before Kassandra, Greece.

On the slopes of Mt. Paiko the grove of Lake Skra in Kilkis, Greece, adds mythical elements to the flora of the Greek landscape. Kilkis is part of the ancient Macedonian region. If one could believe Herodotus, the origin of the Argead Dynasty...

The statue of Alexander the Great was erected in 1973 in Thessaloniki, Greece. It was symbolically built to look toward the east, while Mt. Olympus emerges in the background.

The western side of the campus of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

The isolated gazebo in Thessaloniki, Greece gives motivation to the locals for a retreat to the mountains.

The landscape from the top of Mt. Chortiatis. In the background, the hinterland of the mountainous Chalcidice emerges. In antiquity, the mountain was called Cissus, which means ivy. The locals could have chosen the mountain's name either...

A map illustrating the rise and evolution of the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt from its beginning as an act of rebellion of a slave army against its masters from the Ayyubid dynasty, through its fair share of internal turbulence and strife, into...

Pros ethikous by Sextus Empiricus, manuscript written in Italy, probably Ferrara, Florence, or Rome, during Isidore's participation in the Council of Florence, 1438-1445. LJS 380, folio 244v. University of Pennsylvania.

Portrait of Sextus Empiricus (2nd century CE), etching by Basilius Grundmann, late 18th century. University Library, Leipzig.

The Birth of Pennsylvania 1680, reproduction of an oil painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, 1932. Library of Congress, Washington D. C.