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Aug 13, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Byzantine Empresses in modern art and imagination ✨🎨

#History #Arts #Byzantium Image
Irene of Athens (752 – 803)
Coming from a prominent family of Athens, Irene was brought to Constantinople to marry Emperor Leo IV. She is famous for bringing an end to the first iconoclasm, the fight with her son for the throne & for being the reason for Pope to name the frankish
King Charlemagne as Roman Emperor since the title was "vacant" if you were a woman Empress. Yeap...that according to the Pope. Of course Romans/Eastern Romans/Byzantines thought that was crap...but here we are now with this confusing nomenclature.
*They also tried to marry them Image
Thinking about that Vatican logic I'm tempted to make a #JusticeForIrene and yes people I know that she gouged her son's eyes out...He would have done the same....if he could!

Oh, the painting is the fabulous William-Adolphe Bouguereau, made in 1897.
Zoe Palaiologina (1448-1503). Daughter of Thomas Palaiologos, brother of the last emperor and legitimate heir of the throne. The family managed to flee from Peloponnese to Corfu before the approaching Ottomans take it.

©Lesly Lagacé for the game of Europea Universalis Image
She and her brothers were under the protection of the Pope after the family converted to Catholicism. The Pope appointed the Byzantine Greek scholar Bessarion (a supporter of the union of Orthodox-Catholic churches) of Nicaea as tutor of the heirs of the Byzantine emperor.
Bessarion suggested to Pope Paul II that a union between Sofia Palaiologina and the Grand Prince of Moscow might be a way of achieving the goal of unification. Zoe, later Sophia married Ivan III of Russia.
Irene...the good girl. Born Piroska 1088- 1134) she was the daughter of the King of Hungary. Her Hungarian name means "saint/graceful/serious" and she did lived up to it...
She married John II Komnenos, the son of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. Image
After she moved to Constantinople, converted to Orthodox Christianity and she took the name Irene (means "peace" in Greek) .
As an Empress...she made a lot of children, built churches and monasteries and she became...a Saint. Piroska indeed.
Theodora (500–548 AD). That woman! You need a book to really cover all her deeds and extraordinary life!

I've already made a post about her before, so you can read below👇
In case you missed it...you should listen the latest episodes of @TheRestHistory about Justinian & Theodora! It's just superb and great fun listen to it...
Here: the first of three episodes, concerning Theodora 👇✨

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Jun 18, 2023
In 2022 a treasure trove found in a desert cave in Israel, dating back to King Antiochus IV Epiphanes (175-164 BC).

According to the Israeli Antiquities Authority represents the "first evidence in the Judean Desert for the Maccabean revolt" against the Greek Seleucid Empire. Image
The Seleucid Empire covered large swaths of the Middle East and Central Asia but its power started to diminish.

King Antiochus IV Epiphanes which is referred to in Jewish sources as "The Wicked" is known for banning Jewish practices and traditions. Image
In the year 167 BC started a major Jewish rebellion against the Empire and against Greek influence on Jewish traditional life.
The Seleucid King Antiochus IV Epiphanes launched a massive campaign against the rebels. Image
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May 22, 2023
Ancient Greek geographic terms

𝘏𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢 "western land" (Lit., land of the Setting Sun) initially the Italian peninsula and later Iberia & Western North Africa.

𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘢 "eastern land" (Lit., land of the Rising Sun), the peninsula of Asia Minor (modern Turkey). 1680s map - The Mediterran...
Both term are influenced from a Greek point of view. Anatolia initially meant the lands in the east in general but it came to be traditionally associated with Asia Minor, and remains in use in various occasions even today.
Anatolḗ (Ἀνατολή, means the East & the rising sun). Image
Hesperia comes from the word Hespēra (Έσπέρα, the time just before the sun is going to set/evening) and is associated with Hésperos, the Evening Star (planet Venus). A son of the dawn goddess Eos and brother of Atlas (according to some versions of the myths). Image
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May 22, 2023
Legendary Cities of the Bronze Age Image
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May 19, 2023
Statues of Egyptians Gods guarding the four entrances around a pyramidal structure? A fish pond with marble oil lamps next to roman baths by the sea and just few km away from Athens?

That's the "sanctuary of the Egyptian Gods" of Herodes Atticus (160 AD) in Nea Makri, Attica Image
The worship of Isis and Osiris adopted by the Greeks after Alexander's conquest of Egypt. Isis can be identified here with the goddess Demeter or Aphrodite, while Sarapis, the Hellenized form of Osiris, was equated with powerful gods of the Greek pantheon. Image
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May 13, 2023
Oh the modern counter attack.

Let's put this straight once again since the "historian" Luka is somehow fails to do so.

1) There's no fall of Rome, it's the fall of Western Rome.

2) Charlemagne, the Frankish King is not considered a continuation of the Western Roman Empire.
Merely reveals the aspirations of the Papacy to unhinged itself from the grips of Constantinople and re-create from scratch a long gone title of "Roman Emperor" in the West, one much more closer to the Papacy, to serve better for its political/religious ambitions.
Whatever cultural inheritance Rome left in the West is an open debate, especially in the modern academia, a very interesting talk truly, but not a political one...there's no, not even one historian to really keep ignoring the finality of the fall of the empire in the West and
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May 12, 2023
Child on a swing (aiora)

Attic red-figure chous, attributed to the Eretria Painter. Probably from Koropi (Attica), 430-425 B.C.

National Archaeological Museum, Athens Image
The vase features a scene associated with the Aiōra (Swing) ritual, which probably took place in Attica during the Anthesteria festival, in honor of Dionysus.

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Dionysos into the art of wine making; nevertheless, he met his death at the hands of his compatriots who, not having experienced the consequences of drinking, thought he had poisoned them. Erigone, unable to cope with the loss of her father, hanged herself from a tree!
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