The Sound of a Thousand Tongues: Visitors to Constantinople from the Eastern Provinces in the Sixth Century
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: Pending their return to Egypt, we can imagine Apollos the monk and Victor the priest as country bumpkins gawking around in the Byzantine capital, attending Mass at the recently rebuilt Hagia Sophia, strolling down "Main Street," the Mesê, and catching the panoramic view of the city from the top of column of Arcadius, much like the Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta centuries later, but without need for an interpreter; and we can imagine (before this) the impression made on them by the capital's skyline as they sailed toward it through the Sea of Marmora for the first time, "a view [to quote Glanville Downey] never to be forgotten."1
Author: Arietta Papaconstantinou
Institution: University of Reading
Language: English
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3117517206