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Re: CHAT Stambul (was: A new version of Genesis)

From:Racsko Tamas <tracsko@...>
Date:Friday, June 18, 2004, 11:51
On 17 Jun 2004 Ray Brown <ray.brown@FR...> wrote:

> > My question whether other peoples referred to their principal city > > as "The City" was simply to indicate that in my experience, that > > seems a rather rare practice. Do Parisians routinely refer to La > > Ville? Romans to La Cittŕ? > > I don't know about modern Romans, but the ancient ones most > certainly commonly used unqualified 'Urbs' for the metropolis of > their empire.
I agree. I wrote a posting yesterday with the same idea (but it somehow did not appear on the list). The Pope pronounces the blessing "_Urbi_ et Orbi" still in our days. Byzantium considered itself as the true heir of Rome as the capital of the Roman Empire and the Christianity as well. It is very likely the they called Byzantium in an "imperial manner" as "_the_ City", but, of course, not by the Latin word "Urbs" but by its Greek counterpart "ho Polis".