TIL from A Tale of Three Cities, a book about Istanbul: What’s happening in Gaza is a really old, pre-Islamic pattern “The Marneion…was set afire with pitch, sulfur and fat

TIL from A Tale of Three Cities, a book about Istanbul: What’s happening in Gaza is a really old, pre-Islamic pattern “The Marneion…was set afire with pitch, sulfur and fat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Porphyrius

This saint porphyry character got permission from queen eudoxia in Byzantium to basically torch this Christianity resistant pagan temple with special incendiaries capable of melting bronze. With people inside.

I’m reading this book too! I’m reading about the Goths

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