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

6573.291 - 6596.828 Gregory Aldrete

And so she's living at a time during the late republic when Rome is having all these civil wars, and Egypt is really the last big independent kingdom left around the shores of the Mediterranean. Everything else has been conquered by Rome. So she is in this very precarious position where clearly she wants to maintain Egyptian independence, but Rome is this juggernaut that's rolling over everything.