. The cities of Romagna and the Marches. ustus,for not only has the sea retreated so that it is now nolonger in sight from Ravenna, but the port of Classis andthe town of Caesarea have utterly perished, only the formerbeing represented by a single deserted church dating fromthe sixth century. But we may pei^haps have some idea ofwhat Ravenna was in the time of the Empire if we rememberVenice and the Porto di Lido with the long Riva betweenthem. The city thus so splendidly founded by Augustus becameone of the most important in the West. Its strategicalimportance, however, was obscured by the Gr
. The cities of Romagna and the Marches. ustus,for not only has the sea retreated so that it is now nolonger in sight from Ravenna, but the port of Classis andthe town of Caesarea have utterly perished, only the formerbeing represented by a single deserted church dating fromthe sixth century. But we may pei^haps have some idea ofwhat Ravenna was in the time of the Empire if we rememberVenice and the Porto di Lido with the long Riva betweenthem. The city thus so splendidly founded by Augustus becameone of the most important in the West. Its strategicalimportance, however, was obscured by the Great Peace,but was to reappear with the first invasion of the barbarians,the Gothic raid under Alaric in 401. And here, I think, we touch one of the vital errors ofaccepted history. It has been asserted by Gibbon, to gono further, and repeated by every one of his successors,that when Honorius retreated upon Ravenna in the firstyears of the fifth century he did so as a mere fugitive andcoward seeking an impregnable place in his desire for.
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