By Gustav Hermansen
Gustav Hermansen offers a foundation for optimistic debate at the social and financial lifetime of the Roman urban of Ostia. Ostia unveils old social heritage, structure, urban making plans, and group existence, and is entire with vast ground plans, images, and line drawings.
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By building the two harbours, Claudius and Trajan had taken away the foundation for Ostia's existence. Ostia originally served the port facilities in the mouth of the river and also took care of the merchantmen who were riding at anchor off the beach or who ran their vessels up on the sandy shore (if the vessel had a ram in the bow). The immense expansion of port facilities four kilometres from Ostia moved the greater part of the operation away from Ostia. With Claudius's and Trajan's canals open for navigation, most of the supplies destined for Rome did not have to go through Ostia, and the natural consequence would have been to move the administration and the supporting services to Portus.
C. Deliperi's claim that St. Augustine and St. " On the other hand, Portus might be a more likely place to look for St. Augustine's hotel; in the late fourth century the sea traffic had concentrated at Portus, and St. Jerome records a hotel there (Ep. 66, 11; Ep. 77, 10). But the fact that the lid of her sarcophagus, and the sarcophagus itself, were found at Ostia Antica speaks in favour of Old Ostia. Moreover, St. Augustine's text reads, "Ostia Tiberina," not Portus. This page intentionally left blank 1.
Was doomed before it was finished. By building the two harbours, Claudius and Trajan had taken away the foundation for Ostia's existence. Ostia originally served the port facilities in the mouth of the river and also took care of the merchantmen who were riding at anchor off the beach or who ran their vessels up on the sandy shore (if the vessel had a ram in the bow). The immense expansion of port facilities four kilometres from Ostia moved the greater part of the operation away from Ostia. With Claudius's and Trajan's canals open for navigation, most of the supplies destined for Rome did not have to go through Ostia, and the natural consequence would have been to move the administration and the supporting services to Portus.