HIST 218 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Seta, Miletus, Polis
23 Nov 2017
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The cities of late antiquity and early byzantium. Co(cid:374)sta(cid:374)ti(cid:374)ople: (cid:858)the (cid:272)it(cid:455)(cid:859: what was in them and how they worked. Biggest and best fo the cities across byzantium (cid:455)ou(cid:859)d fi(cid:374)d (cid:272)ities that (cid:449)ere si(cid:373)ilar to this o(cid:374)e smaller version of constantinople same buildings but in a less developed way. What it stood for and represented in culture and spirituality. Embodies order (taxis), right relationship: right relationship between people and nature, people and god. Queens of cities protected by virgin mary: seen as being protected by the queen of heaven. Seen as the navel of the world. Its awesomeness lives in the antiquity of its survival and its lengthily life. Represents stability, absence of change: something they strived for and aimed for, the eternity of christianity is present in the stability and long life on. Constantinople: absence of change- constantinople is still okay then everything else is good, its still present then there is still hope for everyone.
