Augustus Demands Respect, Rome’s Foundation Myths w/ The Partial Historians
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
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The Origins of Athens
"I'm also just disturbed by the amount of stories in Greek mythology, which involve just like random semen," he says. "There's incredible imagery of these half snake people." Athens came about so late in the grand scheme of early Greece that a lot of its mythology is kind of like tacked on. But at the same time it is still so not, it's still so different from Rome's".
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