Professor Carl Richard was featured on the podcast “Washington Wore a Toga”. The following is a transcript of the interview. This book is an intellectual study of how the Romans and Greeks influenced a young republic.

This is a 1970s TV show. It is the closest you'll get to Pindar. Slightly naughty, and filled with double entendres it takes you to the world of the slave Lurkio and his street in Pompeii. Yes, that POMPEII.

“I’ve marched the companies aboard, the arms are stowed below: Now let another take my sword. Command me not to go! I’ve served in Britain forty years, from Vectis to the Wall, I have none other home than this, nor any life at all.”