Andrew Schulz

A stela is like a billboard, sort of.

Maybe it's the size of this wall right here.

It's written in stone.

It's meant to be read for all of eternity.

And he's got this stela that basically says something along the lines of things I did.

And that's sort of what it translates to in Latin.

And it lists out all of his accomplishments.

And he essentially says that when I came to Rome,

He's saying it in an elegant way, but he's saying, when I was born here as a Roman citizen, I founded a city of mud brick.

I leave it a city of marble.

And so he is the one that started erecting Rome.

Because before that, it was made out of red brick and timber.

And it was like a really janky, muddy, just trashy town.

It was a big town.

He started erecting the white marble stone monuments that you see in Rome.

He was inspired to do that because of...

Yeah, because when he arrived in Alexandria, you have to imagine his thought process was like... How can there be a city greater than ours?

Yeah, how can there be... So Alexandria inspires... What is it called?

The Roman?

Well, there's a Pantheon.