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Tom describes Chaucer reading this book in 'The Parliament of Fowls' - 'So the plot of it is that Chaucer is reading a book by Cicero, The Dream of Scipio. And he falls asleep.'

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Ronald Hutton mentions that Cicero wrote 'an entire book...on the nature of the gods' in which he discusses every theory about the divine in his time, demonstrating that ancient Greeks and Romans debated religious matters extensively.