POCULUM

By: Simone Maggi

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

“Thoughtful, timeless, and quietly haunting”
“Ancient and unnervingly modern”
“A philosophical thunderbolt“
— Goodreads

A socratic dialogue of spiritual and philosophical gravity, Poculum is a timeless meditation on memory, identity, and the fate of truth in a world that no longer remembers.
Set in the final years of Rome’s conscience, on the eve of a fire that would burn the city and its certainties, it gathers a circle of thinkers who speak through the night, weighing what must be preserved when language, faith, and meaning begin to collapse.
At its heart, the work engages with questions that bridge philosophy, history, and moral vision, blending elements of:

• history, memory and the erosion of meaning
• the inversion of love
• the subversion of virtue
• the desecration of the body and the land
• the silence of witness

Continuing the philosophical lineage of The Fall Begins Within, Poculum deepens the inquiry from reason into remembrance, from the question of truth to the cost of keeping it. Its voices (Lucius, Phanios, Pliny, Gaius, and the silent witness Epicharis) breathe both history and prophecy, exploring what it means to remain faithful when every structure of belief has been dissolved.
Through a dialogue reminiscent of Plato and the late Stoics, yet alive with modern urgency, Poculum confronts the reader: may it remind that in every age there are those who do not retreat, even when unrecorded; that memory, when borne with integrity, becomes more than remembrance. It becomes resistance.
And perhaps, for some, it will reveal itself as what it was always meant to be: a beginning.