Mentions across episodes
“Will Durant provides a succinct description of how Romans justified gladiatorial games, stating that victims were condemned for serious crimes and their suffering acted as a deterrent.”
“Will Durant, who of course, love, but writing in 1935 when there was a different view of these things, kept the same sort of an idea going in an extremely satisfying from a storyteller and old-time historian standpoint.”
“Historian Will Durant tries to tie the downfall of the meads to their moral degeneration and the fact that they were sort of Nouveau-Riche, he writes about their rapid degeneration compared to their rise.”
“Historian Will Durant points out the church's resentment towards the Roman idea that religion was subordinate to the state, viewing emperor worship as polytheism and idolatry.”
“Will Durant continues about the corruption in the court system, discussing how oaths had lost value and perjury was common.”
“Here's Will Durant's version of the events. Quote, when Jagertha, grandson of Massinissa, tortured his brother to death and tried to deprive his cousins of their share in the kingdom...”
“Will Durant provides an interesting post script concerning how the people that Caius Grakis had appealed to reacted.”
“There's a lot of crackpot histories out there, but there's also people like Will Durant who are wonderful and who obviously have talents above and beyond your average historian.”
“Will Durant is referenced in relation to the Carthaginian practices and the historical context of the Punic Wars.”