[文化博览]Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国 01

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Byzantium-The Lost Empire For more than 1,000 years, the Byzantine Empire was the eye of the entire world – the origin of great literature, fine art and modern government. Heir to Greece and Rome, the Byzantine Empire was also the first Christian empire. Now let's pass through the gates of Constantinople, explore the magnificent mosque of Hagia Sophia and see the looted treasures of the lost empire. “The eye of all the world”， the ancients called it, the heart of a lost empire that had lasted for a thousand years and more. Saint Sophia, the church of the divine wisdom, this was their crowning glory---the glory of Byzantium. The vanished empire of Byzantium born of pagan Rome. Byzantium, the dream of a Christian Roman empire that stretched from Spain to Syria. Byzantium, whose influence ran from Northern Russia down to Nubia upon the upper Nile. Byzantium, gateway to a lost chapter of our past. The Orient Express, I first traveled this line in the 60s. I bought a ticket at Waterloo station in London for a ride to Istanbul in Turkey in a life-long fascination. It took three days to get there with hell on wheels really, goats in the corridor and communism out of the window. Then all of a sudden the trains run around a bend and bang, the orient hit me in the face, the great golden city by the sea set between the east and west, you could see it had been the center of the world. It was astonishing. I come to Istanbul, and underneath, the magic ruins of the lost empire of Byzantium. The Orient Express stopped here in the heart of the old city. I got off it in clouds of smoke and steam, haunted by the ghost of Greta Garbo and Agatha Christie by a thousand spies and archaeologists, by the kings and courtesans, the prewar Europe. Saint Sophia 圣索非亚大教堂 建于东罗马皇帝Justinian统治时期(公元532年—— 公元537年)，当时拜占庭帝国正处于鼎盛阶段。作为世界上十大令人向往的教堂之一—圣索非亚大教堂与蓝色清真寺隔街相望 Nubia 努比亚(非洲东北部一地区,历史上曾为一古国) 注： 作者坐的是大名鼎鼎的“东方快车”号 Greta Garbo 30年代的电影巨星葛丽泰·嘉宝 她演过《茶花女》，所以才有后面的courtesans Agatha Christie 阿嘉莎．克莉丝蒂(1890-1976)英格兰侦探小说家，她是东方快车谋杀案小说的作者Byzantium-The Lost Empire For more than 1,000 yea...

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