Pergamum What a superbly written "blog"! I cannot forgive the Turks or even remotely like them, for the destruction of Christian Byzantium in 1453, or the attempted genocide (which they will not acknowledge) of the Armenians in the early 20th century, and I have a dream of seeing Justinian's great dome of the Holy Wisdom under the Cross again, but the aura of the Ionian Greek coast and the hieratic majesty of the fading eastern Empire beguile me. Pergamum, one of the Seven Cities of Asia in the Apocalypse, was said to be the throne of Satan for there was the centre of Emperor worship in the days of the first century persecution of the Church. But what a trip!
Put your mind at rest It's a bit of both! I'm a student but I take research way too seriously, and let it get in the way sometimes; I guess travel just for the sake of travel feels a bit childish. Thanks for reading, though!
Phineas Pett
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Pergamum
What a superbly written "blog"! I cannot forgive the Turks or even remotely like them, for the destruction of Christian Byzantium in 1453, or the attempted genocide (which they will not acknowledge) of the Armenians in the early 20th century, and I have a dream of seeing Justinian's great dome of the Holy Wisdom under the Cross again, but the aura of the Ionian Greek coast and the hieratic majesty of the fading eastern Empire beguile me. Pergamum, one of the Seven Cities of Asia in the Apocalypse, was said to be the throne of Satan for there was the centre of Emperor worship in the days of the first century persecution of the Church. But what a trip!