Frederic Auth

Now, if you've ever been to Italy or indeed anywhere on the Mediterranean coast, you'll probably know there is no shortage of evidence of the ancient Roman civilization.

They were everywhere.

What is less clear about what happened is on those edges, on the frontiers, how they lived and how cultures intertwined with each other as the Roman Empire prevailed.

overlapped with other territories like the Gauls and the Germanic tribes.

Our next guest is going to tell us all about that because he's working on a site just on one of these edges.

His name is Frederick Outt.

He's a doctoral researcher at Goethe Universitat in Frankfurt.

Welcome to the program, Frederick.

How are you?

I'm fine.

Thank you for having me.

Tell me a little bit about this site, Nita, with a bit of context beforehand, maybe, as to what was going on, where it is, and from a geographical point of view, why it's of particular interest when we think about the Roman Empire of sort of the first couple of centuries A.D.

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Yeah, sure.

So Nida is what today is part of Frankfurt, the city of Frankfurt.

So we are on the east bank of the Rhine, in the Rhine-Main area.

Today is Hessen, the state of Hessen.

And this is frontier zone.

So the Roman Empire...

stretched through large parts of Western Europe, and especially the Rhine area.