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495. Ada Palmer, author of Too Like the Lightning

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

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I Claudius Is a Very Interesting and Influential Way of Looking at Imperial Power

i claudius is a very interesting way of looking at imperial power and the world around imperial power. And engages even more deeply with caligula, who declares himself to be a god and appears to believe it. So i do think that jean wolf is engaged in that in the what is the limit of the power of the monarch? Can there really be a throne so powerful that itsn with saving the earth from the heat, death of the universe? Is that possible? Ah, no. That is, in many ways, the deep extension of the if i'm a god in palmira, how do i cure gout? No, if i'm the emperor of everything,

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