Ravenna and the Fall of Rome
The Ancients
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Theodoric's Ravenna
Can we imagine walking through Theodoric's Ravenna what can we imagine? Would it be like the Babylon or Alexandria or Rome of many centuries previously of cosmopolitan centres with lots of these different languages being spoken. I'm sure that the major monuments would have been the palaces and the villas where the elite lived, as well as secular buildings for the government. There were places called arcades where people worked where craftsmen worked so you would have seen workshops where people were sculpting and making mosaics and preparing building materials. And then lots and lots of foreign merchants selling their waresThese are recorded in the as witnesses to the papari soap makers from Antioch silk makers silk merchants
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