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This appears legit…not historical revisionism:Gladiators Were VegetariansIt's amazing what archaeologists can do with bone samples...they can certainly get a lot out of a little!
Makes sense. I am sure we have all heard of modern athletes Carbo-loading with pasta before big events. Sounds like gladiators did something similar. Very interesting little piece.
Interesting. You would have thought they had eaten everything they could to get fat. But they had to maintain some degree of healthiness otherwise they'd be slow and not too entertaining to watch. Since many of the gladiators were slaves, I wonder if this was the primary slave diet as well.
'Barley men' it must have been very keen observation or very good instincts, that helped find the right diets for fighters. Who is the go to guy for ancient Roman dietary preferences, please? Anybody?
I would guess that deductive reasoning played a part in dietary selection for gladiators. The ancients were not stupid, they just did not have the advantages of the scientific method as we do. They were observant though. I bet they noticed that lower class people who did not eat much meat and upper class types had different endurance levels and inferred a causal relationship or something similar along these lines.
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