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Axes Mundi: The Columns of Constantinople, Part Two

In part one of this article, we addressed the columns of Constantinople

Walls, Gates, and a Marble King: The Symbols of Theodosian Constantinople

This brief article will demonstrate how the Theodosian walls surrounding the city of Constantinople, built by Theodosius...

Axes Mundi: The Columns of Constantinople, Part One

For ancient civilisations, the erection of monuments—whether they were obelisks or honorific columns—implied, from a symbolic point of view, a correspondence or intersection between the horizontal or earthly/terrestrial and the vertical or heavenly/celestial realms.

As Above, So Below: Palatial Symbolism in Late Antique and Medieval Constantinople

It is a truism that for ancient persons, the natural world revealed the sacred. Thus, when the dissociation...

Of Saints and Gorgons: Multivalent Aquatic Symbolism in Late Antique Constantinople

Water has been perceived symbolically since ancient times. In other words, from the activity of water in certain circumstances can be inferred certain phenomena.

Religious Symbolism and the Modern City, Part One: From the Reformation to Today

Plants, and trees in particular, easily fall into the category of the most common symbolic images in the history of human expression. Why is this so?

Bridging the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Pagan and Christian Symbolism in the Little Metropolis Church (Panagia Gorgoepikoos) in Athens, Greece

The Byzantine period of Greece’s history lasted from 330 AD—when St Constantine the Great moved the capital of the Roman empire to Byzantium in Thrace and renamed the city after himself, i.e. Constantinople—to the 29th of May, 1453 when the city fell to the Ottoman Turks.

The Symbolic World of Göbekli Tepe and the First Cities: An Eliadean Approach

First noted in geographical surveys in 1964, Göbekli Tepe, an archaeological site situated about 15km north-east of the Turkish city of Sanlıurfa, was made famous in the 1990s by German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt.

Religious Symbolism and the Modern City, Part Two: Capitalism and Corporations

The previous part of this article accounted for the evolution of the city in the West since the sixteenth century, a period loosely described as ‘modernity’ since it succeeds the medieval period, the Protestant Reformation, and the Renaissance.