Saturday, April 27, 2019

When Did Rome Really Fall? | Intellectual Takeout

When Did Rome Really Fall? | Intellectual Takeout
"...The belief that America is in decline has led to many comparisons between our time and the fall of Rome.
Image result for fall of the Roman Empire is September 4, 476 A.D.,A current bestseller—The Benedict Option—makes the case that Christians today must recover and preserve Western tradition much like their predecessors did in the early centuries of the Middle Ages.
The date most commonly referenced for the fall of the Roman Empire is September 4, 476 A.D., when the barbarian Odoacer sacked Rome and abolished the office of Emperor.
This date was first assigned by the English historian Edward Gibbon in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776), and the societal conditions in Rome leading up to that date are the reference point for most apocalyptic comparisons between then and now.
But what many of you may not know is that there is considerable disagreement about when “Rome” actually fell, and even if it fell at all!
If you ask many Eastern Orthodox Christians, they will claim that the Roman Empire lasted until the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
Their reasoning?
In 330 A.D. the Emperor Constantine moved the capital of the Roman Empire to Byzantium, which he dedicated as the “new Rome” and renamed “Constantinople.”...
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