Not all gladiator scenery slaves. It was a profession like a boxer.
And also was a lot less gory as depicted, with some being closer to modern pro wrestling than anything else.
Barley was a sign of degradation and poverty, but the dietary regimens of gladiators were often quite expensive. Pescatarianism was highly regarded by the Romans for both health and cultural reasons.
I feel like you are a professor or history teacher or something lol
PugJesus, so yes
definitely no corn, beans or peppers before Columbus
Or orange carrots before the Dutch.
Or pumpkins, but those ones look way too small to eat
No banana either
Pepper is from south Asia, and was available to the ancient Romans through Arab traders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_pepper
may want to edit Wikipedia then
That’s bell pepper.
(Black) Pepper = Piper nigrum, native to south Asia, used across large parts of the world since antiquity.
Bell pepper or chilli = Capsicum annuum, native to Central America, now also grown in Eurasia.
i thought we were referring to the items on the picture, where black pepper isn’t displayed, but bell/chilli peppers are
I thought we were talking of pepper. Bell pepper is a different plant.
it said peppers(plural), because it had chilli and bell peppers pictured
No no, bell pepper and chilli are (nearly) the same - Capsicum annuum and closely related species. Their hotness comes from capsaicin.
Pepper is completely different - it comes from Piper nigrum, and contains piperin. Confusingly, it is also called black, green or white pepper.
But if Columbus was right then the Americas and Asia is the same.
It was the penne that felt out of place for me
100% my reaction
Rigatoni, tyvm
Indeed
They were not fed the high quality foods
But this was to fatten them
So they would get an extra layer of protection
More padding for the stabbing
Missed chance for accent
Paddin’ for the stabbin’
Interesting how when ‘barely men’ revolted they managed to slaughter ‘organized armies of real men’ 10x their number.
If have gone with a more obvious joke format like “men? I barley knew them!”.
If this a troll, I’ll bite.
Mr. Connery, the phrase is “barley men”, not “barely men”.
I wish it was a troll. I just can’t read.
At least your comment stopped a lot of other readers from reading it the same way. You made the world better.
I misread the post too, but chalked it up to mocking conservatives for believing it would make them barely men.
Makes one curious of slaves and gladiators were allowed garum. It seems ubiquitous but how much was spent on those about to die?
They weren’t about to die. It was a spectacle. They were entertainers.
Massive generalization. Not every fight was a death match but not every gladiator was a trained professional either, there were plenty of matches whose only purpose was to watch slaves die.
The numbers I’ve seen suggest about 10-20% of the “professional” matches ended in death. That’s a fuckton of dead gladiators, and that’s the professional matches.
Mass combats, rookie matches, these are things we don’t have real numbers on but what we do KNOW is that matches were used as barely concealed public executions as well.
