Kim Bowes: belief

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…You grew up in Big Moose, New York. How has that influenced how you approach the Roman Empire? I understand what it means to live in small communities, and most Romans lived in small communities. I didn’t grow up in a city. Most Romans, despite the fact that we now know a lot more than we thought lived in cities, most Romans still didn’t live in cities. I think the thing that made the biggest difference to me, though, Tyler, is that I grew up in a small family business. Most businesses in the Roman world were small family businesses. That gave me an interest and experience in the multitude of things that have to happen for a small family business to work. The Roman world, as I keep emphasizing, is a world of friends and family. It’s a world that, while bigger in scale than most worlds before the 19th century, still operates very much at that level of friends and family. That was the small business, small world that I grew up in. A doctoral student comes to you and says, “I want to find something like those newly discovered brick factories. Where should I actually go and look?” Where do you send them?…

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