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

11790.139 - 11811.426 Gregory Aldrete

So it's that open-ended thing. But even under Augustus, he seems to be pulling back and saying, well, I'm going to kind of stop at the Rhine. I'm going to kind of stop at the Danube. We don't need to keep expanding forever in the way we've been doing. So, I mean, that's an interesting concept of how do the Romans see their empire? Does it have a boundary? What are those boundaries?