Robin Wigglesworth
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1,983 appearances
13 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 12 Aug
Robin Wigglesworth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Do we know roughly what sort of was there a ninety percent?
Was it an eighty percent that people were sort of poor?
Was it ninety nine percent under David Graeber's famous sort of framing of it?
The the anthropologist, he talked about and how really one percent really kind of owned everything.
Do we have any sort of even
rough sense or what inequality was in ancient Rome.
Yeah, it's annoying how reality is sometimes complex and difficult and hard to think about.
It drives me crazy on a daily basis.
Uh but I'm curious, why is this perception of Rome as a wealthy economy so prevalent?
This just seems to be the the the common view everywhere that Rome was super rich.
Why is that?
Yeah, I I guess also historians sometimes are tempted as well, right, to focus on the the deeds and the the activities of the the great and mighty and wealthy.
Even David Graebird did that, right?
That, you know, you you tend to think of the rich and the poor, and even if you care about the poor, you still focus on the actions of the rich more than anything else.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well today, Kim, we are going to start redressing the the the the balance.
Hooray.
Let's dig into a bit more that of the Satiricus and his family.
Life sounds pretty hard, but there must have been some good life.
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