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Roman gladiators' diet probably not what you'd expect, researchers find
Newser via Fox News ^
| 10.21.2014
| Jenn Gidman
Posted on 10/21/2014 12:59:30 PM PDT by dware
You'd figure a typical Roman gladiator to be a real meat-and-potatoes guy, right? You'd be figuring wrong—at least if you were talking about gladiators from the city of Ephesus.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; History
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; dietandcuisine; dormice; gladiator; gladiators; godsgravesglyphs; romanempire
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To: I still care
33 ... If they ever did a miniseries that was absolutely true to ancient Rome, the way people really lived, and the changes Christians really brought, they wouldn’t show it on tv and people would truly be shocked. Been done. SYFY channel is currently burning through 4 seasons of this TV series: Spartacus It is brutal and very grim.
"Spartacus: Blood and Sand", 2010, 13 episdoes
"Spartacus: Gods of the Arena", 2011, 6 episodes
"Spartacus: Vengeance", 2012, 10 episodes
"Spartacus: War of the Damned", 2013, 10 episodes
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10/21/2014 5:45:00 PM PDT
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MacNaughton
(" If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." POTUS#16 ALincoln)
To: dware; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks dware.
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To: Hugin
Also, they lacked Texas and thus lacked beef
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bert
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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