The John Batchelor Show / PREVIEW: ROMAN REPUBLIC: 483 BCE: VESTAL VIRGIN: Conversation with the classicist Emma Southon, author A ROME OF ONE'S OWN, re women of Rome from the Kingdom to Late Antiquity - here the human sacrifice of a Vestal Virgin. More tonight in detail.

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