Ancient Italy

Ravenna in Context: Where Kings and Emperors Once Lived

In Ravenna in Late Antiquity, Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis looks at one of the most important cities of late antique Europe over the course of 350 years – tracing its expansion as well as its artistic growth. Many remarkable works of art and architecture from this late ancient world still survive today. With this weekend's Wall Street Journal, scholar Stuart Ferguson puts the unique legacy of Ravenna in context – and calls Ravenna in Late Antiquity "fascinating and dense" - "both a narrative history of the city's ruling elites and a survey of its architectural and artistic treasures. . . . [treasures] worth pausing over."