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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How much would he and how much would he earn out in the fields at all, if anything, really?
How much would, you know, uh Horace and his father be making?
Do we have even a rough idea of how many sisters say a a day or the equivalent in grain?
How many sisters in uh uh denarius and how many denarius into Norius? 'Cause they probably would have changed depending on how much silver and gold was in circulation, I guess, but do we have a rough idea?
If I r I rocked up at some merchant in in in Pompeii, for example, and had an aureus, what could I get for that?
what about Thesis?
Would would she be working?
What would she be doing?
Apart from controlling the purse rings, I guess.
So that would have been both the the wife Thesus and Atia would presumably be helping out as sort of a spinning cloth at home because they could sell it for lots of uh Sisterceae and Denarius, I guess.
Yes, exactly.
Can
Return to how they control the finances?
Because I guess even if some of them didn't work or didn't do that much work or we don't know exactly what they did, how did you know them being control of the finances work in practice?
Well, I mean, this is fascinating.
We are going to be taking a quick break here though, Kim, because I mean we have so many things I still want to ask about.
Uh when we come back, we're going to be talking about something we've been sort of uh talking a little bit around the edges, but how ordinary people manage their debts in the ancient Roman Empire.
Because uh there would have been, of course, plenty of years where droughts ruined harvests, interest payments start mounting up.
What was a family to do?
Two.
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