tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post3165292419297403086..comments2023-10-04T09:50:08.070-05:00Comments on Logismoi: 'O City, City, Head of All Cities!'Aaron Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17775589009145031773noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-65306969815601328052009-06-11T13:30:08.372-05:002009-06-11T13:30:08.372-05:00Thank you, Theophylestate. That is indeed a lovely...Thank you, Theophylestate. That is indeed a lovely line from Sir Steven.<br /><br />I've seen <i>1453</i> and thought about reading it sometime, but I don't think I'd ever heard of the Byzantium 1200 website. Neat!Aaron Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17775589009145031773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-90896976981167428532009-06-11T11:41:13.169-05:002009-06-11T11:41:13.169-05:00Roger Crowley's "1453" is a wonderfu...Roger Crowley's "1453" is a wonderful read. Everyone I've forced it on agrees. Remarkably, even though the outcome is a foregone conclusion, one reads of the last days with a strange sense of hope that the Pope's reinforcements will appear at the eleventh hour - pathetic, I know, but a testimony to Crowley's narrative prowess.<br /><br />I also encourage your readers to visit http://www.byzantium1200.com, a marvelous imaginative reconstruction of the City before its sacking by the Crusaders.+Metropolitan SAVAS of Pittsburghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04508393042893425734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-21129886609851042312009-06-11T11:36:07.970-05:002009-06-11T11:36:07.970-05:00Terribly moving, Aaron.
Although I appreciated t...Terribly moving, Aaron. <br /><br />Although I appreciated the passage from Sir Steven's classic, I think the final paragraph is the most powerful. I don't have the book at hand, and can only find its last sentence on line, so it will have to do (for now): "They remembered that dreadful Tuesday, a day that all true Greeks still know to be of ill omen; but their spirits tingled and their courage rose as they told of the last Christian Emperor standing in the breach, abandoned by his western allies, holding the infidel at bay till their numbers overpowered him and he died, with the Empire as his winding sheet."+Metropolitan SAVAS of Pittsburghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04508393042893425734noreply@blogger.com