Halosis
Halosis ( Greek ἅλωσις ) describes the conquest of a city.
The term specifically describes the conquest of Troy , the Iliou halōsis ( Ἰλίου ἅλωσις ). The Greek epic poem Triphiodoros wrote a poem with this title in 691 hexameters in the 5th century.
When Constantinople was conquered by Sultan Mehmet II in 1453 , an event which, due to its tragedy, forced comparison with the fall of Troy among the Greek refugees and in the entire Christian West, the term was referred to the fall of Constantinople and spoke of the Halosis Konstantinoupoleos or simply from the Halosis .
Allegedly, the parallel Troy-Constantinople was also drawn on the Turkish side , namely , Kritobulus von Imbros reports that Mehmet gave a speech on the way to Constantinople in Ilion and said that he had been appointed by God to avenge Troy and had now defeated their old enemies . “It was Greeks, Macedonians, Thessalians and Peloponnesians who once destroyed this city, whose descendants after so many years have now been punished by me because of their hubris (their wicked arrogance), which they then and often later towards us Asians have shown. ".
literature
- Heinz Schmitz: The Sultan and the Troians. In: Sodalitas Florhofiana. Ceremony for Professor Heinz Haffter on his sixty-fifth birthday on June 1, 1970. Zurich 1970. pp. 135ff. [1]
Individual evidence
- ↑ Critobulus 4:11, 6. Text in Müller, FHG V, 52-161