Of course perfume was big back then they didn’t have deodorant yet. I always wondered how people could stand each other before regular bathing and deodorant was invented, and washing machines and dryers and clean clothes every day. They must have reeked!
Greeks and Romans were known to bath often, they erecting many elaborate, expensive bathhouses that aside for being used to clean oneself they were also healing practices with entertainment, social festivities, and physical fitness. Some public baths were so grand that they could easily contain lecture halls, art galleries, meditation rooms, and prayer stalls. They viewed bathing as something one simply did to keep healthy, cleanse one’s self before conducting business, after a day’s work, or before taking part in philosophical discussions, or battle. So in essence they bathed as often as modern people do. If anything people in later centuries such as medieval times or during later times when those powdered wigs became popular because people did not bath often probably stunk more then the ancient Greeks and Romans ever did. LOL! ;)