An official in this city compiled his witty state documents in the Variae and glorified his employers in a history of rulers called the Chronica. Charlemagne imported porphyry columns from ruins in this city to decorate his P
An official in this city compiled his witty state documents in the Variae and glorified his employers in a history of rulers called the Chronica. Charlemagne imported porphyry columns from ruins in this city to decorate his Palatine Palace. A bishop of this city named Johannes brokered a peace treaty at which one of the parties stabbed the other to death, nominally to avenge the Rugii. While serving in this city, Cassiodorus was appointed as magister officiorum. An anti-iconoclast revolt against (*) Leo III was put down by Eutychius, the last exarch of this city under Byzantine rule. Odoacer was killed in this city, where famous mosaics of Theodora and her attendants were painted in the Basilica of San Vitale. For 10 points, identify this capital of Theodoric the Great and the late Western Roman Empire, a city in Northern Italy.
An official in this city compiled his witty state documents in the Variae and glorified his employers in a history of rulers called the Chronica.
Ravenna