<p>First up in this week's episodes, ‘the big Daddy of them all’ - Augustus - gets the Dio treatment in Books 53-56 and, as <a href="https://www.kent.ac.uk/classics-archaeology/people/1749/burden-strevens-christopher" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dr Christopher Burden-Strevens </a>(University of Kent) tells us, it makes for fantastic reading! </p>
<p>“It’s a sham...but Dio thinks it’s essential” - listen now to find out what this is referring to! </p>
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