Episode
13. The Ancient City Part 1
- Podcast
- Great Houses
- Published
- May 29, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 3336
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Summary
Host Gregory Treat launches a new series examining why Rome's greatest families produced so many exceptional men. Drawing on a childhood spent in his great-grandmother's library reading Plutarch, Aristotle, and Xenophon, Gregory argues that Rome's secret was not bloodline — it was character , and the deliberate, multi-generational cultivation of it.