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June 1, 2021 7 mins
Chrissie and Jason tell you all about Rome’s Sacred Chickens.

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There isn’t a great deal about the Sacred Chickens themselves, what we know comes from mentions of them in other contexts. I based this episode on Cicero’s de Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods), Livy’s histories, and Plutarch’s Tiberius Gracchus.

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