Tom Holland on Rome’s golden age
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The End of the Roman Empire
Pompeii and Herculaneum are part of what effectively is the playground of the Roman rich. The Great Temple of Jupiter, which had been rebuilt by Vespasian, that catches fire and burns down again. And you have plague. So this seems to be to nervous Romans palpable signs of divine disapproval. But Domitian, of course, doesn't see himself as a tyrant. He sees himself as instituting policies that are designed to appease the gods.
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