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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dltsrq, post: 6964652, member: 75482&quot;]I&#039;m surprised no one ever mentions the Sanctuary of Apollo at Daphne in Syria. It was founded as a suburb of the city of Antioch by Seleucus I around 300 BC and remained one of the primary religious sites in the Greco-Roman world of Constantine&#039;s day. Indeed Constantine erected a statue of his mother Helena there. Constantine was originally a devotee of Apollo as Helios/ Sol Invictus, which some suggest he came to associate with the God of the Christians. Might &quot;The Constantinian Dafne&quot; (Constantiniana Dafne) be an effort by Constantine to depict Constantinople as the new Daphne and himself as the new Seleucus? Food for thought.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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