Pliny’s Guide to Menstrual Magic – Vespasian #25

Life Of Caesar by Cameron Reilly & Ray Harris

Jul 29, 202613:41Society & Culture

This episode we go deep on the hilltop fortresses still holding out in Judaea after the fall of Jerusalem, which turns into a very long detour through Pliny the Elder's chapter on menstrual blood.... which is, it turns o...

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