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Planning Your Trip to Ravenna?

The old city keeps coming up in our conversations. Now it’s the subject of a medium-sized feature article (2,000 words) in the September issue of The Atlantic, which is now on the newsstands. “The Road from Ravenna,” by Cullen Murphy, is wistful, evocative, and it even includes a sidebar you can use to plan “Highlights of a ‘Fall of Rome’ Tour.” Murphy focuses on the sad case of the Emperor Romulus Augustulus, who reigned 475–476, but also spotlights some of our regular guest stars: Galla Placidia, Theodoric, etc. The story is available online, but I think only for Atlantic subscribers. It’s not worth the price of a subscription — The Atlantic is only intermittently interesting — but certainly worth the price of the issue on the newsstand — if indeed you’re planning that trip to Ravenna. Someday.