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Persians: Cattulus’ poem smearing Magians as incestuous (early first century BCE)
Ancient author: Catullus (early first century BCE), Poems 90 (link). Comments: Catullus uses this poem to put down Magians and Persian rites by way of reference to supposed incestuous practices. For quite a different take on Romans’ relation to Persian divination, see Varro’s discussion of Numa as deriving his forms of divination from Persia (link […]
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