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In St. Augustine's City of God, he mentions that Alexander of Macedon received a secret letter from a Egyptian High Priest which said that all the Roman Gods had just been men. Is there any other evidence that the Roman Religion was just a show put on by the elites for the masses?

by /u/[deleted] in /r/AskHistorians

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