纪录片《大英博物馆世界简史》 067正信凯旋圣像（9）（在线收听）

The Triumph of Orthodoxy did not secure the survival of the Byzantine Empire. In 1453 the city fell to the Turks, Constantinople became the capital of the Ottoman Empire, and the great cathedral of Hagia Sophia became a mosque. The world's balance of power had changed. But if the Byzantine state foundered, the Orthodox Church survived. The faith we see proclaimed in our painting was strong enough to ensure that, under Muslim rule, the traditions of Orthodox Christianity, with the veneration of icons as its defining feature, endured. In one sense we could argue that this icon did exactly what it hoped: Orthodoxy survived, and every year, on the first Sunday in Lent, the Orthodox Church throughout the world celebrates the event shown in our icon, the Triumph of Orthodoxy. Here, as in so much of Orthodox worship, the image and the music of the human voice come together, in what for many is a powerful, and indeed overwhelming, expression of spiritual yearning.

In the next programme we're with a culture that has no problem with religious images, graven or otherwise. We're in India. I'm going to be with two of the great deities of Hinduism... Shiva, and Parvati, his wife.