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Interesting article: Roman Gladiators were mostly vegetarian.
Posted on 10/28/14 at 1:42 pm
Posted on 10/28/14 at 1:42 pm
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The study has been carried out by academics from the Medical University of Vienna in Austria and the University of Bern in Switzerland. They found the gladiator diet was grain-based and mostly meat-free.
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The bone analysis was based on excavations of the graves of 22 gladiators from about 1,800 years ago in the Roman town of Ephesus, now in Turkey. The bones revealed that the typical food eaten by gladiators was wheat, barley and beans - and this echoed the contemporary term for gladiators as the "barley men". There was little sign of meat or dairy products in the diet of almost all of these professional fighters, who performed in front of Roman audiences.
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Posted on 10/28/14 at 1:43 pm to mouton
why would they feed the slaves meat?
Posted on 10/28/14 at 1:43 pm to mouton
well were they not basically slaves?
wasn't meat considered a luxury food then?
wasn't meat considered a luxury food then?
Posted on 10/28/14 at 1:43 pm to bmy
Gay vegans. Meh.
Posted on 10/28/14 at 1:44 pm to mouton
why did this even need to be studied? does this help modern armies better feed the troops by knowing what gladiators ate 2000 years ago?
Posted on 10/28/14 at 1:44 pm to bmy
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why would they feed the slaves meat?
Mouton is stupid.
Posted on 10/28/14 at 1:45 pm to mouton
quote:Who cares if gladiators got the works? It's nobody's business but the Turks.
The bone analysis was based on excavations of the graves of 22 gladiators from about 1,800 years ago in the Roman town of Ephesus, now in Turkey
Posted on 10/28/14 at 1:45 pm to mouton
Gladiators were usually captured slaves weren't they? Of course you feed them the cheap stuff.
Posted on 10/28/14 at 1:45 pm to mouton
Not really that surprising. Roman soldiers were the same way. Their diet was mostly grain based.
Posted on 10/28/14 at 1:47 pm to mouton
I thought gladaitors were really overweight .
Posted on 10/28/14 at 1:51 pm to Artie Rome
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Mouton is stupid
And Artie Rome is fat and miserable.
Mouton is lean and happy.
Posted on 10/28/14 at 1:58 pm to mouton
quote:isn't that what it all comes down to?
Mouton is lean
Posted on 10/28/14 at 2:00 pm to mouton
Doesn't change the fact that you had to ask why slaves didn't get fed meat, you dummy.
And I'm not all that fat. But you are a little soft. Have you tried ITF to get rid of those last stubborn 20 lbs?
And I'm not all that fat. But you are a little soft. Have you tried ITF to get rid of those last stubborn 20 lbs?
Posted on 10/28/14 at 2:00 pm to Kafka
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Who cares if gladiators got the works? It's nobody's business but the Turks.
They only get that privelige in Istanbul (not Constantinople).
Posted on 10/28/14 at 2:03 pm to Volvagia
Just think how much better the gladiators would've been had they been gluten-free.
Posted on 10/28/14 at 2:03 pm to Artie Rome
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Doesn't change the fact that you had to ask why slaves didn't get fed meat, you dummy.
No I didn't. I posted an article.
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And I'm not all that fat
Whatever makes you feel better.
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But you are a little soft. Have you tried ITF to get rid of those last stubborn 20 lbs?
Nah bro.I have been under 10% body fat for over a year
This post was edited on 10/28/14 at 2:07 pm
Posted on 10/28/14 at 2:07 pm to mouton
Only when they weren't biting out people's throats.
Posted on 10/28/14 at 2:07 pm to oldschoolqb
gluten's bad
mmkay
mmkay
Posted on 10/28/14 at 2:09 pm to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
Gluten the debil.
Posted on 10/28/14 at 2:13 pm to mouton
And how did that turn out for them?
where are they now
where are they now
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