Hand-coloured illustration from Tableaux in Greek History, 1953
“There is, in fact, a great tangle of birds: the twin eagles of Greek mythology, the single eagle of Rome, the Double-Headed Eagle of the Byzantine Empire, the Raven of the Pythian Apollo, Constantine’s Angel (I and V), the peacock, Noah’s raven and dove, and the dove of the Christians, seem to belong to the same general conception, and, ruling above all, the EYE.”