Philadelphion
The Philadelphion was a public square located in Constantinople.
Location
After passing the
History
According to the 8th-century
The Parastaseis records that the place received the name Philadelphion ("place of brotherly love") from a statue group showing the meeting of Constantine's three sons there after Constantine's death in 337 and their embrace as a sign of mutual devotion and support. The event never actually took place—Constantine's sons only met briefly in Pannonia after his death—but the statue probably existed, similar to another three-headed statue of Constantine and two of his sons, Constans and Constantius, which the Parastaseis record as lost at sea at the time of Theodosius II (r. 402–450), symbolizing concord in the imperial family.[7] In 1958, P. Verzone identified[8] the statue groups known as the "Tetrarchs", which was plundered during the Fourth Crusade in 1204, brought to Venice, and incorporated into the St Mark's Basilica, with the statues mentioned in the Parastaseis. This identification was reinforced by the discovery of a missing fragment from the statue group near the Bodrum Mosque,[9] but as the editors of the Parastaseis point out, "there are too many discrepancies between those groups and Parastaseis's descriptions here to permit any certainty".[10] Given the inaccuracy of the historical details in the Parastaseis, it is possible that even the identification with Constantine's sons is wrong, while it is unclear from the phrasing of the text whether this monument survived until the 8th century, or whether it had been destroyed long before.[11]
References
- ^ Cameron & Herrin 1984, p. 131.
- ^ Janin 1964, pp. 19–20.
- ^ Cameron & Herrin 1984, p. 135.
- ^ Cameron & Herrin 1984, pp. 151, 153, 266.
- ^ Cameron & Herrin 1984, pp. 135, 247.
- ^ Cameron & Herrin 1984, p. 247.
- ^ Cameron & Herrin 1984, pp. 151, 265–266.
- ^ Verzone 1958, pp. 8–14.
- ^ Striker 1981, p. 29.
- ^ Cameron & Herrin 1984, p. 265.
- ^ Cameron & Herrin 1984, p. 266.
Sources
- Cameron, Averil; Herrin, Judith (1984). Constantinople in the Early Eighth Century. The Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary. Brill Archive. ISBN 9004070109.
- Janin, Raymond (1964). Constantinople byzantine. Développement urbaine et répertoire topographique (in French). Paris.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Striker, Cecil L. (1981). The Myrelaion (Bodrum Camii) in Istanbul. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
- Verzone, P. (1958). "I due gruppi in porfido di San Marco in Venezia ed il Philadelphion in Costantinopoli". Palladio (in Italian). 8: 8–14.