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The Statues of Constantinople

Part of Elements in the History of Constantinople

  • Date Published: July 2021
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781108958370

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  • This Element discusses the ancient statues once set up in Byzantine Constantinople, with a special focus on their popular reception. From its foundation by Constantine the Great in 324, Constantinople housed a great number of statues which stood in the city on streets and public places, or were kept in several collections and in the Hippodrome. Almost all of them, except a number of newly made statues of reigning emperors, were ancient objects which had been brought to the city from other places. Many of these statues were later identified with persons other than those they actually represented, or received an allegorical (sometimes even an apocalyptical) interpretation. When the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade conquered the city in 1204, almost all of the statues of Constantinople were destroyed or looted.

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    • Date Published: July 2021
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781108958370
    • length: 75 pages
    • dimensions: 228 x 152 x 6 mm
    • weight: 0.146kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    1. Introduction
    2. 'Shining like the sun upon the citizens': Constantine's statue on the Forum
    3. Other statues of emperors on triumphal columns
    4. Of emperors and elephants
    5. Constantine Helios as charioteer
    6. The Forum of Constantine
    7. The servant of the wind
    8. The rider on the Tauros
    9. The place of brotherly love
    10. Empress Helena and the lord of Amastris
    11. The Ox of bronze
    12. Three-headed statues
    13. Exakionion and Golden Gate
    14. Prophecies of the future
    15. Testing chastity
    16. Collections of statues
    17. Statues in the Hippodrome
    18. The statues of Constantinople in the late Byzantine age
    Bibliography.

  • Author

    Albrecht Berger, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen

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