#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome

11766.908 - 11789.399 Gregory Aldrete

I mean, there's some things that suggest, oh, here they tried to rationalize the border and shorten it by taking this territory. Other people see it as just kind of random. So that's an interesting take is how do the Romans conceive of empire? I mean, if you look back at someone like Virgil at the time of Augustus, he said, well, the gods granted Rome empire without end. Yeah.