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Title: Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923
Subjects: Cities and towns, Ancient Cities and towns -- Italy Architecture, Roman Italy -- Antiquities Dalmatia (Croatia) -- Antiquities
Publisher: New York, Sturgis & Walton Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the locationof some big battle in the days before the Dacianwar than any event of this time. Whether instarting from Salona he took the more northernroute via Burnum and Asseria or the more south-ern route, by the Drin valley, I would not ventureto suggest without further study of the region;but does not the memorial arch-gate at Asseria,though erected several years after, suggest thatTrajan may have passed this way? In any case,there is cumulative circumstantial evidence infavor of the theory that Trajan selected someroute through Dalmatia as the shortest and saf-est way of reaching his field of operations andthat he had been preparing for this by puttingthe highways and ports in repair. Spalato and Diocletian The lowest point on the Dalmatian coast toshow important Roman ruins is Spalato, whichis also the landing-place for a visit to Salona.The ancient conditions are reversed. Salona wasthen a great city; Spalato a late imperial palacebuilt three miles away, beyond its suburbs. Now
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Plate Lii ROMAN CITIES 809 we stop at a hotel in Spalato and drive in a hackto the ruins of Salona, fortunate if we can havethe guidance of the prince of Dalmatian archae-ologists, Mgr. Bulie, whose home is Spalato. AsSalona embodied Augustus and the beginningsof the Empire, Spalato typifies Diocletian andits twilight. It is almost like a night-bloomingcereus, a splendid, lurid flower, unused to thelight of day but superb in tone and outline. One is fairly tempted to say that Spalato isthe best remaining embodiment of late Romanideals. In the first place it is thoroughly cos-mopolitan, representing many races and cen-turies both as heir and progenitor, with onehand stretched out to Rome and the other tothe Middle Ages. In its plan and system it em-bodies the militarism and centralization so char-acteristic of Diocletian. It accentuates theOriental idea of the separation of the sexes in itsdouble parallel apartments, and in this as well asin its style illustrates the Eastward tendency

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