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

12549.625 - 12576.453 Gregory Aldrete

So there's this letter from a Greek who was serving as an administrator in the Roman government, and he gets posted to Germany, okay, to the far north. And he writes these pathetic letters back home to his family saying, the inhabitants here lead the most wretched existence of all mankind, for they cultivate no olives and they grow no grapes. So to him, that was hell. Yeah.