Posted on 02/06/2024 11:53:23 AM PST by Red Badger
Two giant feet, a knee, a bicep and an enormous head -- archaeologists have reassembled these few marble fragments to reconstruct the Colossus of Constantine, a larger-than-life statue of the first Roman emperor to embrace Christianity.
Rome officials unveil a reproduction of a 13-metre high Colossus of Constantine. © Tiziana FABI / AFP A reproduction of the 13-metre seated statue, a bronze cloak draped over Constantine's left shoulder, was publicly unveiled on Tuesday, offering a rare view of the towering statues built in ancient Rome to glorify the gods or emperors.
"The impression one has before this sculpture of the emperor elicits what must have been the sensation of his subjects before an imperial image," said Claudio Parisi Presicce, Rome's top official for cultural heritage.
For hundreds of years, various pieces of marble still displayed today within the museum atop Rome's Capitoline Hill were all that remained of an imposing statue of an emperor or divinity.
It was not until the late 19th century that the protagonist was identified as Constantine the Great, the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity, who moved the seat of the empire from Rome to Constantinople before his death in 337.
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Bocce Ball Ping!.......................
Make Istanbul Constantinople Again
The old gods are returning.
I watched that series on the Starz cable channel, and I found it hard to follow. The ending was very confusing.
I believe the statue was originally inside the basilica of Maxentius, whom Constantine defeated at the Milvian bridge. Constantine converted it to glorify himself, of course. Think of how large the basilica was to hold that statue.
Yes it was.
It basically was about the ‘old’ gods vs the ‘young’ gods.
The Old gods were losing their power for lack of worship, and the young gods wanted to take over and start a new religious order.
Neither side was powerful enough to conquer the other.
The ‘human’ was the unwilling go-between for the two sides.
Mr. Wednesday, Odin, was trying to keep the peace.................
Constantine was the first Christian emperor, not a deified Caesar.
Colossus
Thats why they call it the Colosseum
Off the top of my head I’d suggest the top heavyweights in the political development/ history of the west for good or for ill would be Cyrus, Alexander, Augustus, Constantine, Charlemagne, Locke/Montesque, Marx, and Hitler. Other nominees?
Does a mausoleum have a mouse in it?................
How do they know he’s “larger than life”? In those days there be giants.
A proper mausoleum should have a Mausolus in it.
Churchill.
no founding fathers or adam smith...
Marx would be little remembered without the opportunist Lenin.
Washington is often taken for granted but Lord was he pivotal.
For various reasons I would add Augustine and then Erasmus/Luther combined.
Pythagoras, Archimedes, Aristotle, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Leeuwenhoek, Newton, Boyle, Lavoisier, Maxwell, Kelvin, Einstein, Szilard, Teller, and Oppenheimer.
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