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50. Rome: A Slave Society

Empire

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Dionysus's Librarian

The idea of giving away a human being as a birthday present is shocking. Dionysus does get away, doesn't he? He does make it off back and disappear into his people. And so you think that is something that punctures the slightly cosy view of oath. What do you do? I'm Cicero's librarian. We're going to go to a break in a moment. When we come back, we're going to talk about resistance, slave resistance. But just one thing before we get to the break, you have a wonderful story.

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