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On imposing our own belief systems onto the ancient world and how whipping might just be an antidote to taking ourselves too seriously

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Feb 23, 2025
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Planetary Systems, from "On the Consolation of Philosophy" by Boethius, edition published in Augsburg, 1537.

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