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

4492.157 - 4513.241 Gregory Aldrete

And by the late republic, the Romans just get kind of really into legal stuff. I don't know why, but – and the Romans were very methodical, organized people, so maybe this has something to do with it. But their law code just keeps getting more and more complicated. and keeps expanding to different areas. And they start to get jurists who write sort of theoretical things about Roman law.