Winter Lecture: The Romans, In Their Own Words

Speaker: Professor Greg Woolf, University of St Andrews. It took 60 days to cross the Roman Empire in the summer months, longer in the winter. How did Romans control such a vast space without telegraphs, telephone or e-mail? And how did its sixty million inhabitants find their own place in it?

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/sw000007?id=EVENT458455