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The Book Club: Rome's Age of Revolutions
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- Best of the Spectator
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- Jul 15, 2026
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- 2549
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Summary
My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Tim Whitmarsh, Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge and author of Rome’s Age of Revolution: Augustus, Empire and the Making of Christianity . He tells me why, contrary to what we may have learnt at Sunday school, early Christianity flourished not despite the Roman empire, but because of it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.