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Not my favourate book.

Something interesting I found in the book: The common Roman beliefs about his Olympian gods can be summedf up in four brief statements:

First, they are no better than I am, only stronger;

Second, they can be bribed with sacrifices but they cannot be won over by good works;

Third, they are not much interested in mortals; and

Fourth, there probably aren’t any gods anyway.