英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-8
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This was once a marble square on a highway at the middle of Constantinople. I didn’t suppose the Turks on modern Istanbul think much about ancient Byzantine victories. Yet, there’re still some fragments here of that great memorial column that made it all the way from Marmara, the ghosts of the imperial armies, still lining1 the routes of their processions through the city.
Just as all the ancient roads and sea lanes ran through the empire to Constantinople, so did the rivers of the region. Channeled into great aqueducts, bringing treasured water to a thirsty city.
Underneath2 the town, cut deep into its hilltop, an
eerie3 underworld, some 15 centuries’ old. Fresh water systems, so that the Byzantines could bathe just like the Romans do in marble halls, and every thing made with the dazzling technology of ancient Rome, father of Byzantium. Marble columns, high brick
vaults4, the dark forests of Byzantium, beneath modern Istanbul. Those Greek letters, hammered into the column with a
chisel5 point, the marks of one of Marmara’s quarrymen.
Food, too, flooded into the enlarging city. What a vast logistic exercise, and an earthly miracle, supporting Constantinople’s half a million people, Europe’s biggest city, and every thing cause, by hand. There was no food industry. Everything was carried here in boats and carts. The finest fish, the Byzantines believed, were caught beside the emperor’s palace, between the rising of the Pleiades and the settings of a blood red star of Arcturus. Colors, smells and
textures6 of the ancient everyday, the raw ingredients of Byzantine experience, the world of the ancient
Mediterranean7.
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