“What is truth?”, asks Pontius Pilate while interrogating Jesus in the Gospel of John (18:38). But even the most cynical Roman politician knew that one truth was certain. Death wins.
Their city, after all, had been founded in blood: Romulus killing his twin, Remus, on Rome’s first day. Almost a thousand years later, long after Pilate himself was dead and…
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