G'day. I'm Gary Stevens. Welcome to the afterlife of the History in the Bible podcast.

Gettay, guys. This is the first in a series of detour episodes for the afterlife of my podcast.

These are shows that simply do not fit into my podcast's theme of biblical history, although

they will usually touch on ancient history or the history of Christianity or Judaism.

I think you like them.

On this first detour, I am joined by Bernie Mayapolski of the Fan of History Podcast.

We investigate the most mysterious objects ever produced in the Roman Empire. I hope you

enjoy the show. The first voice you hear is Bernie's. We have a really interesting topic today.

It's new. It's old. It's been around, but this is our

version of it. We're going to talk about the Roman deck. How do you pronounce this, Gary?

The Roman dodecahedra. Yeah. Tell us about it, Gary. Smooth segue.

The Roman dodecahedra are objects that have been known since 1740.

There's about 140 of them.

No one has the faintest idea what they are.

Now, let's get into it.

First, I'm going to start with the platonic solids. A platonic

solid is a regular polyhedron. Now that means all the faces are the same, all the edges are the same

and all the corners are the same. They are excellent for making fair dice. And in fact, you're probably quite familiar with

the platonic solids. They are widely used in board games and in games like Dungeons and Dragons

when you need more than a standard six-sided dice. So let's start with the six-sided dice.

It's a cube.

All the faces, edges and corners are the same.

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