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Bread and Circuses for Rome | No Republic Was Ever Greater

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The Dangers of Religion and State Power

There's this sense that it's like, well, who's in charge here? Right. If Toulouse Hostilius, he was kind of irreligious and didn't care. And then when he got sick, he got really into all this occult stuff, which was his downfall. But yeah, by creating and expanding the priestly class and raising the public esteem of the priests, you create a potential challenger to your power. Tarqueños: You see religion is on the up and up.

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