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

889.756 - 913.438 Gregory Aldrete

So the United States, revolutionary France, they were very obsessed with the Roman Republic as a model. But other people, Mussolini, Hitler, Napoleon, they were very obsessed with the empire, Victorian Britain as a model. So Rome itself has different aspects. Well, what I think is actually another big difference between the modern world and the ancient is our relationship with the past.