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

9891.783 - 9914.309 Gregory Aldrete

So it was very much a political statement that my dynasty is going to be about serving Romans, not serving ourselves. And so that's why he builds the Flavian Amphitheater. And the funds he uses from it is basically from looting Jerusalem because the other thing he had done just before this is he had sacked Jerusalem and destroyed the temple there, in fact. He and his son Titus.