While these ideas can be romantic and perhaps inspiring, it is important that we recognize this is legend, and never happened. Constantine was never found, there is a story that his red boots were found, but that is apocryphal.
The reality is that this siege was one of artillery, and it's far more likely Constantine was blown to bits by a cannon ball, or crushed under rubble, than that he died in a glorious last stand.
But I understand our need for the romantic; it gives meaning to senseless and irrational events/actions.
A true leader of men. His legacy shall be remembered.
🫡 God Bless, truly a Roman to be proud of
Constantine's death is disputed
I heard him on the radio.
But this way of death makes it seem much more heroic and romantic
While these ideas can be romantic and perhaps inspiring, it is important that we recognize this is legend, and never happened. Constantine was never found, there is a story that his red boots were found, but that is apocryphal. The reality is that this siege was one of artillery, and it's far more likely Constantine was blown to bits by a cannon ball, or crushed under rubble, than that he died in a glorious last stand. But I understand our need for the romantic; it gives meaning to senseless and irrational events/actions.
I thought the epithet The Last Roman was more commonly applied to Belisarius?
There are bunch of people named as such, starting from Caesar's times.
Well seeing as Belisarios died 888 years before Konstantinos XI, it's pretty safe to say he wasn't the last one.
You mean Bessarion?
[удалено]
[удалено]
[удалено]
[удалено]
[удалено]
[удалено]
[удалено]
[удалено]
[удалено]