There is another similar myth that envolves the fall of the Carthaginians. Supposedly, the Carthaginian descended from the Phoenecians and the Romans descended from Trojans. The phoenecian queen Dido, had a love relationship with king Priam and assisted him in war against the greeks. But suddenly the phoenecian queen fell in love with a greek and changed deplomacy. She betrayed Priam and the phoenecians declared war on the Trojans causing their demise. Aneas (the "Trojan founder" of Rome) vowed to kill Dido and every last phoenician/phoenecian descendant. This supposedly caused the Romans to honor Aeneas's vow by destroying the carthaginian civilization, just as the phoenecians helped the greeks to destroy the Trojan civilization. Mind you, this is only a myth, I am well aware that the punic wars weren't caused this myth. My point is that maybe Kekroporta is just another strange greek/roman mythological cause for the fall of constantinople. I mean, if you say that Kekrops was an athenean rival to byzantium, it is not hard to imagine how or why the gate of Kekrops was named after him when the turks demolished it with their cannons, marched through it and destroyed the Roman civilization for good.
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