10 Truly Disgusting Facts About Ancient Roman Life
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1 min readOct 16, 2017
Ancient Rome holds a mythic place in our imaginations. It’s the land of historical epics like Ben-Hur and Gladiator, where men in golden armor ride chariots and emperors are fed grapes in reclining chairs.
Real life in Rome, though, was quite a bit less glamorous. In a time before modern sanitation and medicine, getting through an average day was a difficult task — and far more disgusting than you could ever imagine.
