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Episode CXII - The Book of Love

Emperors of Rome

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The Art of Love and Rome's Public Monuments

Rome's courts are hunting grounds for passion. Love will often be found under venus marble temple, the appian fountain pulses its jets high in the air. Your jurisconsuls entrapped by love's beguilements, counter to others, he cannot advise himself. The poem gives an interesting picture of how romans interacted with those monuments and what monuments there were on some of the features that they had.

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