Episode CIX - Saturnalia
Emperors of Rome
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The Dilemma Between Prose and Poetry
The month of december has been given over to the saturnalia. Poetry tends to celebrate it more than prose, he says. A custom called the king of saturnaliayes is meant to be in charge of festivities. It's not meant to do it in a manipulative, nasty way that nerodo would have done.
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