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Episode CXII - The Book of Love

Emperors of Rome

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A New Roman Empire Needs the Art of Love

There's a tradition of didactic poetry in roman literature already. Virgil wrote a poem on agriculture in four books in the thirties. lucretius wrote a poem in six books setting out the theories epicurus. But now a new rome needs the art of love from ovid. Or doesn't exactly need it. I'm not sure that it gets it.

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