[Ansteorra] Wait, WHAT?

John Atkinson johnmatkinson at gmail.com
Sun Jul 26 17:47:29 PDT 2009


I just find it amusing that they phrase the name of the building that
way.  Hagia Sophia is Greek for "Holy Wisdom".  This makes it sound
like an alternate name rather than just a literal translation of the
name.

Ioannes

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Peter Schorn<peterschorn at pdq.net> wrote:
>
> "Haghia Sophia, also called the Church of Holy Wisdom, was built in 537 B.C.
> and remained a symbol of Byzantine grandeur"
>
> So we have a Byzantine church built over 500 years before Christ and almost
> a thousand years before Byzantium--obviously aliens were involved!
>
> --Cadfan ap Daineken
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