RE: Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.
December 29, 2021 at 12:35 pm
(This post was last modified: December 29, 2021 at 12:39 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I don't think that big mo misunderstood his source material so much as he understood his audience very well, as did his successors. Neither he nor they were judaizers or christianizers..and, obviously, none of them wished to grant or cede authority (let alone territory) to either tradition.
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