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The Romans are often accused of simply copying Greek inventions, but this is far from the truth. In this video, we explore how the Romans took Greek ideas and turned them into something even greater.

For the Greeks, the idea was a fluid one—a literal place and a civic ideal that allowed for democracy to flourish. There’s a reason many of us know the word for “marketplace”(agora) in ancient Greek, ...