and it basically says don't worry, buddica, because she did come to a very sticky, nasty end. [laughter] don't worry you're your descends will rule more of the world than the romans ever did. [laughter] you turn the independence freedom fighter into the ancestor of british empire by an a appalling slight of hand, actually. [laughter] i'll shut up now, but i think for me, though, not infrastructure, though that's important because it's what first got me into romans, you know? it was all i could see around me. i think that where rome has formed western identity, you know better than me, i think, in this country, is not so much in infrastructure, it's in the conversation that we still have with the romans about how politics and civic values work. and i think it's very interesting in the states because american audiences are much more receptive to this than british ones. british always tend to think about aqueducts -- [laughter] and american audiences think about the senate and the capitol and the idea of how you create community. and in many ways i think what we really are the he

and it basically says don't worry, buddica, because she did come to a very stick key, nasty end. your descendants will rule more of the world than the romans ever did. [laughter] so you turn the independent freedom fighter into the ancestor of the british empire by an appalling slight of hand, actually. [laughter] i must shut up now, but i think for me though it's not infrastructure, though that's important because it's what first got me into the romans, you know? it was all i could see around me. i think that where rome has formed western identity -- you know better than me, i think, in this country -- is not so much in infrastructure, it's in the conversation that we still have with the romans about how politics and civic values work. and i think it's very interesting in the states, an american audience are much more receptive to this than british ones. british ones always think about aqueducts -- [laughter] american audiences think about the senate and the capitol and the idea of how you create community. in many ways, i think, what we really are the heir of is roman debate. y

there is a fantastic bronze statue of the leading british rebel, the warrior queen, buddica, in her chariot with her daughters, flowing hair as we imagine, you know, massacre as she apparently did thousands and thousands of roman soldiers, 20 years only after the conquest. and she in all sorts of ways, she's the rebel, she's a terrorist, she's the independence freak. on the base of the statue, kind of paradoxes about our relationship with rome comes out very clearly because what it says is a quotation from a slightly earlier poem. this statue's late 19th, early 20th century. and it basically says don't worry, because she did come to a very stick i can, nasty end, don't worry because your descendants will rule more of the world than the romans ever did. [laughter] so you turn the independence freedom fighter into the ancestor of british empire by an appalling slight of hand, actually. [laughter] i'm going to shut up now, but i think for me, though, it's not infrastructure, though that's important because it's what first got me into the romans, you know? it was all i could see around me. i th