All 3 Uses of
Constantinople
in
Moby Dick
- But granting all this; yet, regarded discreetly and coolly, seems it not but a mad idea, this; that in the broad boundless ocean, one solitary whale, even if encountered, should be thought capable of individual recognition from his hunter, even as a white-bearded Mufti in the thronged thoroughfares of Constantinople?†
Chpt 43-45Constantinople = capital of the Byzantium Empire (also known as the Eastern Roman Empire)
- In the sixth Christian century lived Procopius, a Christian magistrate of Constantinople, in the days when Justinian was Emperor and Belisarius general.†
Chpt 43-45 *
- Now, in this history of his, Procopius mentions that, during the term of his prefecture at Constantinople, a great sea-monster was captured in the neighboring Propontis, or Sea of Marmora, after having destroyed vessels at intervals in those waters for a period of more than fifty years.†
Chpt 43-45
Definition:
capital of the Byzantium Empire (also known as the Eastern Roman Empire); Constantine renamed the city of Byzantium to Constantinople in the fourth century; in 1930 Turkey renamed it to Istanbul