It's lovely innow it's nice, the er diverse. But when i was younger, i don't if i could watch it now. It's slow by modern standards. The argument a homogeneous and white people m gets used to perch all sorts of political arguments on a most recently noted am a, nile ferguson,. A noted historian, but notably not a historian of the ancient world. I think it's important for a few reasons. One that really prompted me to write the series is that often this misconception of the romans as having been, at some point in their past, a homogeneous has got distorted.
Historian Bret Devereaux of the University of North Carolina talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about our understanding of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Devereaux highlights the gap between the reality of Greece and Rome and how they're portrayed in popular culture. The conversation focuses on the diversity of ancient Rome and the military prowess of Sparta.