Michael Macijeski

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It’s not just that the Romans had the same array of gods and goddesses as the Greeks except with Latin names. They saw those deities within the same framework as the Greeks: a “natural” world that contained both humans and gods. Rome, in short, was Greece without the subtleties. Minus philosophers but plus engineers—and concrete.
The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
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