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Ostia After the Empire: The Port That Outlived Rome
In this episode, Lucas and Luna travel beyond the usual story of Rome's rise and fall to ask what happened to its great port city after the empire crumbled. Ostia, once the bustling gateway for grain, marble, and people from across the Mediterranean, didn't just vanish overnight. Instead, it faded slowly, reinvented itself as a fortified town, and then sank into the ground, only to be reborn as an archaeological treasure. We trace the city's late antique decline, its transformation into a bishopric, the haunting presence of the castello and the borgo, and the moment when…
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