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26 August 2023

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City of Echoes: A New History of Rome, its Popes and its People Jessica Wärnberg

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Rome in the 1st century AD pulsated with religion. The knowledge that they lived in a sacred city, protected by the gods, permeated the daily lives of its citizens. They would see oxen being led down cobbled streets to be sacrificed on marble altars or offerings of incense and wine being made when the gods or the emperor demanded.

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