#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome

8788.817 - 8811.846 Gregory Aldrete

standard kind of, you know, I guess pagan polytheism where there's a bunch of gods, there's certain gods who are associated with the Roman state, and there would be prayer said to those gods on behalf of the Roman state, but it wasn't really, you know, you weren't trying to execute the will of Zeus or something or Jupiter or Mars or anybody else. And in your private life, it was the same thing.