DeMille's epic movies were based on the settling of the American West, Roman history or stories from the Bible.

VOA: special.2009.05.31

You can't wander around any Greek city, or Roman city of the Ancient World, without seeing the latrine.

古代希腊城市，及罗马城市，都有公共厕所。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

This is also important though for Roman politics, because if you're if a freedman, - or even if you're a free person-- sometimes see freemen would connect themselves to a powerful Roman who was higher status than them, because they could use him for important things.

同时对罗马政治也很重要，因为即使是自由人，甚至是自由民-,有时候也会依附有权有势,地位高于他们的罗马人，以谋求他们的帮助。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

However, when you keep going south in Italy, past Rome, Roman tradition says the city was founded in 754 or 753? 753.

然而,当你在意大利继续南下,越过古罗马城,罗马人一直认为罗马城,建于公元前754或753,应是753年

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Actually the City of Corinth wouldn't have been taxed because it was a Roman colony, and one of the benefits of being a Roman colony is that you didn't have to pay taxes, or at least the citizens didn't have to pay taxes.

事实上科林斯城以前从不收税,因为它是罗马的殖民地，成为罗马殖民地的一个好处是,不必交税，或者至少公民不用付。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

or different parts of the Roman Empire.

还有罗马帝国其他地区。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

That is, more or less, what did happen in the Roman world and I don't see anything that's suggested it couldn't happen in the Greek world at the time we're talking about.

那就是,或多或少的,我看不到任何事物可以表明,在罗马社会发生的事情不会,在我们所讨论的这个时期的希腊发生

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选