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Tom Holland: Lessons from the Roman Empire
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Episode202K
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3y ago
Jul 7, 2023
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1h 07m
show avg 47m
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- 0:00Introduction
- 1:40Tom Holland tell us about the opening of his new book ‘PAX’.
- 11:50Is there a sense of precariousness of the Roman Empire?
- 19:47Tom Holland explains questions around gender and sex though this period
- 32:48Are there things you admire and things you thinks we’ve lost in the Christian era that the Romans had?
- 45:30How simular are we today, compared to the Roman Empire in it’s declining phases?
- 54:26Tom explains if woman had a figure through out the Empire
- 1:06:31Outro
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