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

4541.166 - 4560.817 Gregory Aldrete

And so that becomes the basis for almost all the legal systems around the world, and it's very complicated. And Roman law, I think, is really fun because on the one hand, it's really dry, but it also preserves these wonderful little vignettes of daily life that So you get these great just kind of entertaining law cases. One of my favorite – and this may not even be a real case.