# The Book Club: Rome's Age of Revolutions

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Published: 2026-07-15T23:01:00+00:00
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## Resource

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.

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