Images

A detail of an Attic red-figure hydria, c. 480 BCE, showing the Spartan king reunited with his wife Helen of Troy after the Trojan war. (Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich)

A statue group possibly representing the Spartan king Menelaus supporting the fallen Patroclus, one of the famous episodes of the Trojan War of Greek mythology. Roman copy of a Hellenistic period original. (Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence)

The city of Antigoneia in Epirus (Albania) was built on the Hippodamian grid system and covered an area of almost 45 hectares

A 100 m-long portion of the Via Egnatia can be seen near the provincial town of Peqin, between Durrës and Elbasan (Albania). The pavement is about six metres wide with an Ottoman surface, a later repair of the earlier Byzantine and Roman...

Avar earrings from the 8th-9th century CE.

The Agora of Butrint (Albania) with the Roman Forum and the Sanctuary of Asclepius in the background.

The Baptistery of Butrint in Albania with its well-preserved mosaic pavement featuring iconography relating both to Christianity and to aristocratic life. Early 6th century CE.

Butrint National Park, Albania.

Section of the Aurelian Walls in Rome.

Antigoneia of Epirus, Albania. The city was founded in 295 BCE by Pyrrhus, the king of the Molossians, who named it after his wife Antigone, daughter of Berenice I and step-daughter of Ptolemy I of Egypt.