... how just being able to hand over grain or bread is an example of the interconnectedness of what Rome is?

Mm-hmm.

Oh, y-yes, very much so.

Uh, most of the grain that comes to Rome is taxed.

Uh, the Romans take quite a bit of their taxes in kind, um, throughout their empire.

Some is paid in cash, but a lot of it, um, in places like Sicily, uh, North Africa, you know, Tunisia, Algeria, um, and above all, Egypt, is taxed in grain directly.

So if you're a farmer in Egypt, for example, let's say you're in the Fayum Basin, um, around Karanis, a town we know quite a bit about, um, you have to pay, let's say, between 10 and 20% of your annual crop to the empire, um, in the form of grain, threshed grain.

You mentioned malaria, you mentioned plague, how they, they fit into that story.

Thank you.

It varied a lot by region.

So in the Roman world, there was just a huge range of methods.

Quite a few people paid their taxes in grain.

It'd be a share of your crop.

Um, so you'd pay a tenth or a, you know, a, a fifth of what you produced in wheat to the administration.

You'd bring it.

AD.

I just wanted to get your thoughts on it and maybe a little bit about the Odyssey itself.

Yeah, I mean, everyone expects the historian at a movie about the Odyssey, for example, to be the killjoy.

Like, oh, they got this wrong, they got that wrong.

This movie is unwatchable.

But I try and give movies like this new Odyssey a grain of salt.

You know, the benefit of the doubt, let's say.

Because...

Appreciate you.