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NEW YORK (AP) — "I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it,” Shug tells Celie in Alice Walker's “The Color Purple.” In nature ...
The Sarantine Mosaic.(1998) is a historical fantasy by Guy Gavriel Kay that is modeled on the Byzantium empire and the story of Justinian and Theodora. In the historical mystery novel One for Sorrow by Mary Reed / Eric Mayer , Theodora is one of the suspects in the murder case investigated by John, the Lord Chamberlain .
The purple of the Judas tree flower resembles the color used in the clothes of Byzantine rulers. It was a sign of wealth and power, as it was the most difficult color to be produced naturally. Except for the emperor, no one could wear the color purple. [13] Judas trees have been the symbol of Bursa, Turkey for centuries.
Images on pottery show that chariot racing existed in thirteenth century BC Mycenaean Greece. [a] The first literary reference to a chariot race is in Homer's poetic account of the funeral games for Patroclus, in the Iliad, combining practices from the author's own time (c. 8th century) with accounts based on a legendary past.
Byzantium is a 2012 vampire film directed by Neil Jordan. The film stars Gemma Arterton , Saoirse Ronan , and Sam Riley . Byzantium had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2012, and was released in the United Kingdom on 31 May 2013.
As in Graeco-Roman times, purple was reserved for the royal family; other colours in various contexts conveyed information as to class and clerical or government rank. Lower-class people wore simple tunics but still had the preference for bright colours found in all Byzantine fashions.
[4]: 503 She was Porphyrogenita, [5]: 259 "born into the purple"; the appellation for a child born in the capital to a reigning emperor. Her father became co-emperor in 962 and sole emperor upon the death of his brother Basil II in 1025. His reign as sole emperor lasted less than three years, from 15 December 1025 to 12 November 1028.
The double-headed eagle is an iconographic symbol originating in the Bronze Age. A heraldic charge , it is used with the concept of an empire . Most modern uses of the emblem are directly or indirectly associated with its use by the late Byzantine Empire , originally a dynastic emblem of the Palaiologoi .