
Episode CXIX - Fragments of Early Roman Literature
Emperors of Rome
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Do You Know Why We've Lost These Poems?
The poems were read and staged in the first century during cicero's time. The idea that things survive because they are strong along the lines is one of the kind of problems we have to deal with our perspective on this world. Varro in the delingillatina writes that there is little that time doesn't distort much, It obliterates completely.
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