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As long as it pertains to these topics as literature or how the belief in them affected historical events.

For example, Iulius Gaius Caesar using his clan name - Iulius - to assert that he was a descendant of Venus.

Or how did their religious beliefs affect the defenders of Masada in the first century CE.