The Church of Sancta Sophia, Constantinople: A Study of Byzantine BuildingLethaby, W. R. (William Richard)
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The Church of Sancta Sophia, Constantinople: A Study of Byzantine Building
Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard)
Ayasofya Müzesi
[1] Ἀνάπλους Βοσπόρου, ed. C. Wescher, 1874, p. 5.
[2] _Notitia Dignitatum_, eds. Pancirolus, Venice, 1602, and Seeck
Berlin, 1876. The date given by Seeck for the _Notitia_ is 411-413 A.D.
[3] Ἑλληνικὸς Φιλολογικὸς Σύλλογος; παράρτημα, 1885.
[4] Ed. Bonn, i., p. 494.
[5] Lydus speaks of a fire spreading from the “Forum of Zeuxippus” to
that of Constantine (p. 265). The baths of Zeuxippus are placed at the
north end of the Hippodrome by Labarte and Mordtmann.
[6] Christodorus, a fifth-century poet.--F. Baumgarten, 1891.
[7] _Hist._ ed. Bonn, p. 97.
[8] Rawlinson’s _Herodotus_, 1875, vol. iv., p. 467.
[9] Mordtmann, _Esquisse topo. de Constantinople_, p. 48 and map.
[10] _The Museum of Classic. Antiq._ 1857, p. 305. The Capitol was
beyond Forum Cons. Lydus speaks of “the porticoes that pass through
the city and lead to the Forum of Constantine, and the broad space is
screened symmetrically with great and beautiful columns. [Some of]
these porticoes are said to have been built by men from Naples and
Puteoli who came to Byzantium to please Constantine.” (Ed. Bonn, p.
266.)
[11] _Imperium Orientale_, Paris, 1711.
[12] Bury, _A History of the later Roman Empire_ (395 A.D. to 800
A.D.), vol. i., p. 57. Mr. Bury, in an excellent review of Paspates’
book in _The Scottish Review_, Ap. 1894, gives up the position assigned
to the Augusteum by that author.
[13] D. Byéljajev, _Byzantina_, St. Petersburg, 1891, reviewed in
_Byzantinische Zeitschrift_, 1892, p. 344.
[14] MSS., plans, and descriptions, in the Library of R. Inst. Brit.
Architects.
[15] Paspates, _The Great Palace_, p. 20. Mr. Metcalfe’s translation is
intended throughout.
[16] Lib. lxxiv., ch. 10.
[17] Mordtmann, _Esquisse_, pp. 4 and 5.
[18] _Esquisse Top._ p. 3.
[19] Zosimus (p. 139) and Lydus (p. 265) say that the Emperor Julian
built a Senate. So also according to Sozomen (ii. 3) and the _Paschal
Chron._ did Constantine.
[20] _Hist. eccles._ lib. vi., ch. xviii.
[21] _Ecc. Hist._ lib. i., xvii.
[22] Du Cange, _Descriptio S. Sophiae_, ed. Bonn, p. 62.
[23] Eusebius, _De Vita Cons._ lib. iv., cap. lviii-lix.
[24] _De Vita Cons._ lib. iii., cap. xlviii.-xlix.
[25] _Eccl. Hist._ ii., xvi.
[26] Du Cange, p. 63. He quotes the fifth-century author Idatius.
[27] Ed. Bonn, i., p. 523, and i., p. 530.
[28] Socrates, _Hist. Eccl._ vi., 18.
[29] Du Cange, § 3.
[30] _Pasch. Chron._ ed. Bonn, i., p. 572.
[31] _Eccl. Hist._ ix., 1.
[32] See Tozer’s note, Finlay, vol. i., 45.
[33] Justinian’s church was opened at Christmas.
[34] Art. “Orientirung” in _Real Encyklopädie der Christlichen
Alterthümer_, 1886, based on Mothes’ schedule in _Die Basilikenformen_,
1865. We hope to show on another occasion that the present church at
Bethlehem which points to the east was entirely rebuilt by Justinian.
There is no proof that S. George Salonica is older than fifth cent.
[35] _Homilies_ xxvi. and lx.
[36] _De Sepulcris Imperatorum_, Migne S. G., vol. 157, p. 726.
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