CLST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Mithraism, Lombards, Constantinople

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 201
• Professor: Bernard Kavanagh

Document Summary

Emperor elegabalus (218-222) was from there and was saluted as emperor in that city. Had shown interest in both christianity and mithraism (his mother, helen, was. Christian: mithraism came from persian/parthian empire, most who practice mithraism are the parsees and they live in bombay, india. I(cid:374) sky at battle of mil(cid:448)ia(cid:374) bridge, he sa(cid:449) a (cid:272)ross (cid:449)ith (cid:449)ords (cid:862)i(cid:374) ho(cid:272) sig(cid:374)o, (cid:448)i(cid:374)(cid:272)es(cid:863) ((cid:449)ith this sign, you will conquer: victorious, he issued in ad 313 the edict of milan, which legalized christianity. Coi(cid:374) i(cid:374) brazil fou(cid:374)d i(cid:374) (cid:1005)833 (cid:449)ith (cid:862)i(cid:374) ho(cid:272) sig(cid:374)o, (cid:448)i(cid:374)(cid:272)es(cid:863) o(cid:374) it. Constantine lived in britain for a bit so there is a statue of constantine in york. In 324, at site called byzantium in asia, he founded his new capital, constantinopolis, Constantinople: eastern roman empire is often called byzantine thereafter, constantinople is today called istanbul in turkey, move was because they felt they needed a more secure roman empire capital.