The Byzantine double-headed eagle

Our logo was created by local Boston architect Alex Liousas. It is inspired by the Byzantine double-headed eagle and medieval Greek scribal practices of writing with ligatures. Greek ligatures are graphic combinations of the letters of the Greek alphabet that were used in medieval handwritten Greek and in early printing. Ligatures were used in the cursive writing style and very extensively in later minuscule writing. There were many dozens of conventional ligatures. Some of them stood for frequent letter combinations, some for inflectional endings of words, and some were abbreviations of entire words.