This is the memory palace. I'm Nate Demet.

For a while, the Greeks believed that Harmonia, the daughter of Aries in Aphrodite,

was taken from Mount Olympus by Cadmus, a human, the first king of Thebes,

a great hero and slayer of monsters, and they were married in a ceremony in mortal lands,

attended by both gods and men. Other Greeks in other times believed that Harmonia was the

daughter of Zeus and Electra, who was a human or a nymph, depending on who you asked and when.

And then after a while, Romans began calling Harmonia Concordia, called her parents Mars and

Jupiter, and came to call on her to heal rifts between spouses and bring harmony to the home.

For a while in the 4th century BCE, there was a Roman dictator named Marcus Furious Camillus,

and there was some conflict between the petitions and the plebeans. The Camillus was able to

resolve, and he marked the occasion with the construction of a temple to Concordia, the goddess

who was once Harmonia, in the western end of the Roman Forum. Were it stood for a while,

put to varying uses by varying Aries of Romans, until paganism was outlawed by the Christian

emperors of the 4th century BCE, which I'll call AD because those Christian emperors would want it

that way, and then at some point the temple collapsed, and then it was torn down in 1450,

and most of the temple to the goddess that no one believed in anymore, was broken up and ground

down into limestone, so they could make other buildings for other purposes.

They waited for a while for the dog to die, and the 9 men, keeping to the shadows,

staying low as they slipped out of the trees and crept across the grass,

past one in the morning, the night quiet except for the sound of the Potomac, over its banks with

the snow melt, there on the 4th of March 1854. Now that the watchdog was successfully poisoned,

the only thing left to worry about was the guard at his station, the shack by the construction side,

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