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230 - Richard Rohlin - Universal History: The Bridegroom and the Scapegoat

The Symbolic World

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Are You a Vestal Virgin?

In ancient rome, even if a vestal virgin defiled herself, you were till not allowed totot harm her in any way. So they had to come up with these special rules for how would you bury a vestalirgin alive,. Then you're not harming her. She just stops breaking od die undergrounde but sidenote, i once wrote a for school, i once, this is why you should home school. It's because ionce wrote a whole paper on methods of execution in the ancient world. And so that. They weren't burying her alive, and they didn't kill her. But she just died of starvation. Fracis not a great way to go

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