Serpent Column Review

The Serpent Column is located in the Hippodrome of Constantinople. It comes from the Plataea Tripod Altar of the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. It is said that this altar was built in the 5th century BC to celebrate the victory of the Greeks over the Persians in the Battle of Plataea during the Persian Wars. The top of the altar is a golden bowl supported by three snake heads. Constantine ordered it to be moved from Delphi to the middle of the Hippodrome of Constantinople. Now most of the Serpent Column has been destroyed. The golden bowl and the snake heads are gone. Only the main body remains, which is in a twist shape and surrounded by an iron fence. After explanation and imagination, we can imagine what it originally looked like.

The so-called Serpent Column is actually a triangular altar, an ancient copper column, which is located at the Military Constantinople Hippodrome in Istanbul. Well, it doesn't seem to be anything special now, but it does have history and significance.

Sultan Ahmed Square was an arena in ancient times, called Constantine Arena (Hippodrome of Constantinople), and after the Ottoman Turks came in 1453, they changed the name to Sultan Ahmed Square (Sultanahmet Square). So these two names refer to the same place.

The pillars come from the Tripod altar of Pilateia, a temple in Delphi Apollo, built in the 5th century BC to celebrate the victory of the Greeks over the Persian people in the Battle of Pilateia in the Persian War. The top is a golden bowl supported by three snake heads. Constantine ordered it to be moved from Delphi to the middle of the Constantinople racetrack. The golden bowl and the snakehead were destroyed.

It is easy to see the snake pillar in the square. There are many attractions around the square. It is really a Grand Palace in the blue lyrics, so everyone goes to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go