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In bed with the Romans: a brief history of sex in Ancient Rome
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Sex and the (Vatican) City: a brief history of clerical celibacy
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Has there ever been a married Pope?
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The destruction of Pompeii
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Why did the papacy move to Avignon in the 14th century?
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Did Emperor Nero really play the fiddle while Rome burned?
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Why does the Tower of Pisa lean to one side?
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Lucrezia Borgia: is her bad reputation deserved?
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Pliny’s Rome: Vesuvius, vice and vestal virgins
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My favourite place: Rome, Italy
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Agrippina the Younger: the first true empress of Ancient Rome
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