How Nuns Replaced Rome’s Great Pagan Priestesses

The Vestal Virgins were respected and revered for over a thousand years in ancient Rome. Learn how their powerful order was banished and how a new religious order of women - early Christian nuns - became the norm… because it didn’t happen without a fight, and as the Vestal Order fell, so too did many of the greatest freedoms of antiquity as the Western world moved into the Dark Ages.