ANST - FW: Musing on July 26 -- Drink to Me only with Thine Eyes

[Scot and Domino Eddy]

>SCA – Sir Balthazar of Endor
>AS – Polyphemus Theognis
>TRV – Sebastian Yeats said...
>Empress Irene was in the thick of it. She supported the idea of having
nice pictures around; she was >what was called an anti-iconoclast. Icon
is a sacred picture, clast means to tear down. She was >against ripping
down the paintings.

Instead of "anti-iconoclast" a more accurate term would be either
"ikonophile" (eikonofileiV)
which should be easily translated to "image lover" or "ikonodule"
(eikonodouloi) which means
"servants of images."

On the other side were the "ikonoclasts" (eikonoklastai) or "image
breakers." There is another
term I can't seem to locate with a fancy Greek name that translates to
"image burner."

Grace and Peace,

Jovian Skleros

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