Andrew Schulz

There's the Roman Pantheon, which is a, but the Palladium may be a region of the city, but I'm really not sure.

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course.

But to that extent, Rome was really just a knockoff.

Now I have to look at Alexandria and be like, oh, shit.

Well, and Alexandria was a knockoff of Athens.

Yes.

So it all sort of starts in Athens.

But then, you know, Athens itself is revolutionary in many ways, but, you know, they're also so inspired by...

The Bronze Age Greeks.

Like, you can kind of follow these webs as it goes back, you know?

I forget, it may have been Cyrus the Great invades Greece and then burns down a massive temple on the Acropolis of Athens.

And then the Athenians, they made the decision to never rebuild it, to leave it there in its toppled- As a reminder?

As a reminder to everybody what would happen if they allowed invaders to come in again.

Is that kind of how they see themselves?

Yeah, it is.

It is the height of all of the Greek world, at least the classical Greek world.

At what time in history is this?

450 BC, just like approximately.

Wow.

Yeah.