Rome Did Not Fall, Right?

Rome looms large in the imagination in ways that are really hard to understate. The eastern roman empire continued for another thousand years, regardless of where you want to say it fell. A galipocitia moves very easily across what we think of as kind of the height of the roman empire. And there's this wonderful moment in procopius, history of the gothic wars when belisarius is before the walls of ravenna and the people of ravenna come out from behind them. You know, hey how about just one more Roman emperor? But then he says no - because a couple of generations before they had two emperors. So i think things like that