Peter Jones
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Dan Snow's History Hit
The Seven Deadly Sins
They weren't the eight deadly sins.
Dan Snow's History Hit
The Seven Deadly Sins
They were once the eight generic thoughts, which is a terrible title for a book.
Dan Snow's History Hit
The Seven Deadly Sins
Yeah, the origin is kind of strange.
Dan Snow's History Hit
The Seven Deadly Sins
It begins in a political scandal.
Dan Snow's History Hit
The Seven Deadly Sins
a guy called Evagrius Ponticus, who was a politician from the Black Sea coast to what is now Turkey.
Dan Snow's History Hit
The Seven Deadly Sins
We're talking about the late 300s.
Dan Snow's History Hit
The Seven Deadly Sins
Okay, so Roman Empire still reasonably coherent.
Dan Snow's History Hit
The Seven Deadly Sins
Writing in Greek, politics happening in Constantinople, sex scandal, Evagrius loses his career and sort of wanders off into oblivion.
Dan Snow's History Hit
The Seven Deadly Sins
And he kind of, he's depressed, he's despondent, it's a midlife crisis.
Dan Snow's History Hit
The Seven Deadly Sins
He drifts down to the desert just outside Alexandria.
Dan Snow's History Hit
The Seven Deadly Sins
Well, everyone was doing it.
Dan Snow's History Hit
The Seven Deadly Sins
This is just a well-trodden path.