# 13. The Ancient City Part 1

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Podcast: [Great Houses](https://stenobird.com/podcast/great-houses-7769932)
Published: 2026-05-29T07:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

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.

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