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Speaking of beasts of burden, I was last week listening to the Rolling Stones over at my sister’s house, while assembling May Day baskets for her son to deliver.

May Day!

It seems beasts of burden, whether they be sisters or mothers, smokers or non-smokers, protectors or persons guilty of setting a bad example,

will not live down their reputation for passive civil resistance.

First chapter (listening, not reading, yet I recorded this quote)

“Slaves, whether sold or born into slavery, were by definition degraded to the level of beasts of burden. We do not and cannot know what it was really like to be a Roman slave since most left no trace at all of their interior lives. But everything we do know about slavery at the points in human history tells us this was a condition which…

Psyche/Eros (Cupid) tale arose from Apuleius’s writ oral history.

I am yet reading (listening to) the first chapter on the Romans, slavery, and just now a reference to Apuleius the 2nd century writer Anno Domini (AD) who wrote The Golden Ass, a collection of myths and tales belonging to the oral tradition, and the collection of histories at that time KNOWN about the Greek Pantheon.

I love this book. Learning specific statistics about Romans, population, land area.