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Towering Colossus of Constantine reconstructed in Rome
AFP ^ | 06/02/2024 - 17:18 | Staff

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...


TOPICS: History; Society; Travel; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: emperorconstantine; godsgravesglyphs; romanempire
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Apparently he liked to play Bocce Ball........
1 posted on 02/06/2024 11:53:23 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: SunkenCiv

Bocce Ball Ping!.......................


2 posted on 02/06/2024 11:53:53 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal qs are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Make Istanbul Constantinople Again


3 posted on 02/06/2024 11:58:39 AM PST by montag813
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To: Red Badger

The old gods are returning.


4 posted on 02/06/2024 12:00:21 PM PST by Jonty30 (In a nuclear holocaust, there is always a point in time where the meat is cooked to perfection. )
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To: Jonty30

5 posted on 02/06/2024 12:02:36 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal qs are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

I watched that series on the Starz cable channel, and I found it hard to follow. The ending was very confusing.


6 posted on 02/06/2024 12:03:56 PM PST by Publius
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To: Red Badger

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.


7 posted on 02/06/2024 12:11:17 PM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: Publius

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.................


8 posted on 02/06/2024 12:11:54 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal qs are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Jonty30

Constantine was the first Christian emperor, not a deified Caesar.


9 posted on 02/06/2024 12:13:20 PM PST by Petrosius
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To: Red Badger

Colossus

Thats why they call it the Colosseum


10 posted on 02/06/2024 12:19:38 PM PST by Jolla
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To: Petrosius

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?


11 posted on 02/06/2024 12:20:48 PM PST by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/22/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Jolla

Does a mausoleum have a mouse in it?................


12 posted on 02/06/2024 12:22:53 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal qs are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: All

How do they know he’s “larger than life”? In those days there be giants.


13 posted on 02/06/2024 12:33:02 PM PST by BipolarBob (Pray for Mother Russia.)
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To: Petrosius
Constantine was the first Christian emperor, not a deified Caesar.

He didn't start his reign as a Christian, though, he had converted by the time he converted the likeness on the statue from that of Maxentius to himself.

Interesting that he kept the Jupiter style for it, including at the time a beard (removed during a revamp over a decade later).
14 posted on 02/06/2024 12:33:08 PM PST by verum ago (I figure some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
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To: Red Badger
Looks like Rufus Sewell.


15 posted on 02/06/2024 12:50:10 PM PST by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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A proper mausoleum should have a Mausolus in it.


16 posted on 02/06/2024 1:08:11 PM PST by yuleeyahoo (“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” - the deep-state)
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To: j.havenfarm

Churchill.


17 posted on 02/06/2024 1:49:54 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: j.havenfarm

no founding fathers or adam smith...


18 posted on 02/06/2024 3:02:34 PM PST by reed13k
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To: j.havenfarm

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.


19 posted on 02/06/2024 3:09:21 PM PST by KC Burke
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Pythagoras, Archimedes, Aristotle, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Leeuwenhoek, Newton, Boyle, Lavoisier, Maxwell, Kelvin, Einstein, Szilard, Teller, and Oppenheimer.


20 posted on 02/06/2024 3:30:46 PM PST by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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