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... is it blasphemy to say the Roman Empire is bigger than Jupiter? (media.kbin.social)

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[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 1 points 4 months ago

Funny thing about that - the Greeks believed that the gods lived on Mount Olympus, but the Romans were more keen to see the gods as abstract. Jupiter, though sometimes personified, was often thought of by the Romans as the sky itself.

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