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I'm John Batchel with Professor Ed Watts.

The new book is the Romans, a 2000-year history.

It is striking how many of these scenes and how many of these proverbs we live with today here,

inheriting the tradition of the Roman Empire.

As Britain inherited it, and as we inherited it from Britain, and we can mention

other countries, other sovereignties, and other kingdoms that have paid attention to Roman

institutions. The Appian Way is a Roman institution. That's a superhighway. It still exists.

In 1944, the Allies had to break up the Appian way to get into

Roman time. It lasted that long, and it's still with us. And the man who built it is Apius

Claudius Caichus, and he lived in the fourth century as a builder and as a man who understood politics. However, Professor the Monarchus, and he lived in the 4th century as a builder and as a man who understood politics.

However, Professor, the moment in your book that is most winning in the early stages before we get

to the empire is his speech as an old man carried into the forum, I believe, by younger men.

Who was he? What do we need to know about him today?

Appius Claudius is a political genius. So the Claudio family is a dominant family in Roman history.

Across 500 years, this is one of the most prominent families in the Roman state. But it was in a

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