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The Problem of Evil
When you look at the Roman gods, Glasowski writes about this quite a bit, the gods are not deemed to be all good. And then in Rome, there was a thing called theatrical theology where they would have theater pieces that would act out these omnivices of the gods on the stage and people would pay to see them. But it's just to make the point, even the Romans had the idea that the gods were not necessarily good. They also embodied evil. And they didn't have the same way of thinking about the problem of evil. That comes about the minute you posit the idea that generally, I think, comes from Plato, like in the third book of the Republic,