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Twelve Caesars with Mary Beard

Dan Snow's History Hit

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How Many Imperests Do You Have in This Book?

The first 12 emperors have been very much the nucleus. And when artists came along and wanted to do sets, because emperors always come in sets enough. They'll make you a set. What you like, sirias going to be set from julius casar to domitian. I think there's an intellectual and academic reason for concentrating on those lso think actually, they're quite enough to be dealing with. It's like mas it's sikes of physics. An we can talk to alien species about number patterns and things. We can talk to people from the sixteenth century about which emperors we like. Yes, yes. There is a kind of nice connection

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