Talk:Porphyrogennetos

Untitled
How long did the Porphyra/Porphyry actually exist? I don't think it was standing as late as 1204. I am interested in finding out how this term is used in the last phases of the Empire & sources are extremely sparse. But as this article stands, it is of minimal use.

Gibbon
From: Gibbon, Edward, Esq. (1782), History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire. Harper's Edition (1836), New York. Revised by Rev. H. H. Milman (1845).
 * Notes in Chapter IV: The Cruelty, Follies And Murder Of Commodus.—Part I.: "Commodus was the first Porphyrogenitus, (born since his father's accession to the throne.) By a new strain of flattery, the Egyptian medals date by the years of his life; as if they were synonymous to those of his reign. Tillemont, Hist. des Empereurs, tom. ii. p. 752." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.208.210.98 (talk) 23:21, 3 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Your point being? Commodus was the first Roman ruler born while his father ruled, but he was never called "Porphyrogenitus", which was a Byzantine appellation. Constantine  ✍  04:30, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Title and accents
If the article title is with one "n", shouldn't the article itself use that spelling? I'm also unsure if the Greek should be transcribed into English with accents. This doesn't seem to me to be normal practice with Byzantine titles. Slac speak up! 01:26, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Merge
I support the merg of these two articles.E.M.Gregory (talk) 19:59, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Support merge: Target could be Born in the purple with that section (currently a summary of the Porphyrogennetos page) being replaced with the Porphyrogennetos article. The heading could be changed to Porphyrogennetos. My feeling is that both pages benefit from this move, Porphyrogennetos gaining through its association with modern use, and the history/origin adding context to the Born in the purple page. Klbrain (talk) 15:22, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ Klbrain (talk) 22:13, 23 February 2018 (UTC)