Parga, Preveza, Greece.
Πάργα, Πρέβεζα, Ελλάδα.

Pyxis from The British Museum
Date: 500BC-470BC
Provenance: Athens, Attica (Greece)

At the doorway stands Iphigenia, to her comes Danae.

The Lion of Saint Mark, symbol of the Republic of Venice, standing guard over a map of Crete.

The Realm or Kingdom of Candia ( Regno di Candia) or Duchy of Candia (Ducato di Candia) was the official name of Crete during the island's period as an overseas colony of the Republic of Venice, from the initial Venetian conquest in 1205–1212 to its fall to the Ottoman Empire during the Cretan War (1645–1669). The island was at the time and up to the early modern era commonly known as Candia after its capital, Candia or Chandax (modern Heraklion). In modern Greek historiography, the period is known as the Venetocracy (Βενετοκρατία, or Ενετοκρατία, Enetokratia).

Similarly to Crete, the Ionian islands were also an overseas possession of the Republic of Venice from the mid-14th century until the late 18th century. The conquest of the islands took place gradually. The first to be acquired was Cythera and the neighboring islet of Anticythera, indirectly in 1238 and directly after 1363. In 1386, Corfu voluntarily became part of Venice's colonies. A century later, Venice captured Zante in 1485, Cephalonia in 1500 and Ithaca in 1503. The conquest was completed in 1718 with the capture of Lefkada. Each of the islands remained part of the Venetian Stato da Màr until Napoleon Bonaparte dissolved the Republic of Venice in 1797, annexing Corfu. The Ionian Islands are situated in the Ionian Sea, off the west coast of Greece. Cythera, the southernmost, is just off the southern tip of the Peloponnese and Corfu, the northernmost, is located at the entrance of the Adriatic Sea.

Kefalonia island, Ionian Islands, Greece.
Κεφαλονιά, Επτάνησα, Ελλάδα.

Vienna Dioscurides (or Dioscorides), 6th-century Byzantine Greek illuminated manuscript of De materia medica, a medical text composed between 50 and 70 CE by Greek physician Pedanius Dioscorides.