Word: byzantium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made-up young women, by these people their age astride Hondas. Also incredulous are the people of Hanoi, who for 20 years have lived in austerity, when they see in their newspapers pictures of the store windows of Danang. The two parts of Viet Nam are like Sparta and Byzantium; they are like the two ingredients of a sweet and sour sauce, difficult to mix so that it will remain tasty...
There can hardly have been two distant cities whose fate was, for good and ill, more intimately linked than Venice and Constantinople. Soon after the Emperor Constantino the Great established his new Christian Rome by the Bosporus in 334 A.D., Constantinople, the fabled golden city of Byzantium, became the matrix of European civilization. During Constantinople's rise, Rome was a tract of ruins and Venice only a cluster of wattle huts on a lagoon mudbank...
...ancient and Oedipal bond between the two cities is the subject of what must be the most beautiful exhibition to be seen anywhere in the world this summer. "Venice and Byzantium," a collection of some 130 works ranging in date from the 4th to the 17th centuries, is on view at the Doges' Palace in Venice until Sept...
...Byzantium ruled Cyprus for more than eight centuries...
...Evening in Byzantium, Shaw...