Anita Anand

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5,917 appearances 33 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard 2d ago

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Empire: World History · 384. The Roman Invasion: Gods on Hadrian’s Wall (Ep 2) · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

We have records, we have relics, we have real tangible evidence of religious devotion in this kind of mishmash patchwork kind of way. matched

Well, I mean, and we should say that Bath, you know, Aquasoulis is what it was known as. matched

The Romans would not have called it Bath or Bath. matched

They would have called it Aquasoulis. matched

So, yes, talk a little bit about that because likewise, my children, it's the one place that they were transfixed when I tracked them around the country to try and improve them. matched

They actually helped in Bath. matched

I'm very happy to open a new branch of scholarship, but it also sounds like Surya, the Sanskrit word for the sun. matched

Syria. matched

So, you know, there's sort of that, you know, Indo-European thing going on. matched

I always find that really tantalizing when I hear echoes of it. matched

Under the suria sulis. matched

The beauty of Bath is that the earth seems to have given so much to this place, but it was there before the Romans arrived. matched

So, the people who were there before the Romans, before they got their grout and tiling out, did they also treat it as a holy place? matched

But when I looked at it, it sort of reminded me a bit of the Green Man, you know, that you see stretching back into, you know, early British folklore as well. matched

That kind of sort of, you know, hair that could be alive like grass or, you know, that kind of thing. matched

I like my statues white and grey. matched

It just really throws me when they get lips and, you know, blush and stuff. matched

I don't like it. matched

Willie mentioned cursed tablets. matched

Now, tell us a little bit about that because that really is a fascinating thing about Bath. matched

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