Towering Colossus of Constantine reconstructed in Rome

AFP ^ | 06/02/2024 - 17:18 | Staff

[Red Badger]

Apparently he liked to play Bocce Ball........

[Red Badger]

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

[montag813]

Make Istanbul Constantinople Again

[Jonty30]

The old gods are returning.

[Red Badger]

[Publius]

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

[pierrem15]

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.

[Red Badger]

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

[Petrosius]

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

[Jolla]

Colossus

Thats why they call it the Colosseum

[j.havenfarm]

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?

[Red Badger]

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

[BipolarBob]

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

[verum ago]

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).

[rfp1234]

Looks like Rufus Sewell.

[yuleeyahoo]

A proper mausoleum should have a Mausolus in it.

[Albion Wilde]

Churchill.

[reed13k]

no founding fathers or adam smith...

[KC Burke]

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.

[rfp1234]

Pythagoras, Archimedes, Aristotle, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Leeuwenhoek, Newton, Boyle, Lavoisier, Maxwell, Kelvin, Einstein, Szilard, Teller, and Oppenheimer.