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

7774.785 - 7798.621 Gregory Aldrete

He published volume after volume of his personal letters to his friends. He published these things. So there's tons of stuff from him. And secondly, he's interesting because he lived at this incredibly important time in the late republic when things were falling apart. But he seems to have been born with none of the natural advantages that all these other people had. So he was a lousy general.