What Is the Job of an Epigrapher?

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Epigraphers are the people who carve inscriptions into stone. The ancient world is full of valuable information that can only be found by carefully documenting it. If you remove an ancient art document without documenting any details, then all its value is lost.

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.