P.Clodius Posted February 10, 2006 Report Share Posted February 10, 2006 Aside from eating unusual stuff, the preverbial Badger's Earlobes and Wolf's Nipple Chips. What practices do you find most unusual from your studies? For me it would be the plucking of body hair, including pubic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M. Porcius Cato Posted February 10, 2006 Report Share Posted February 10, 2006 Between the human sacrifices (rare, I know), the slavery, the marriage and divorce laws, and the infanticide, I'd go with the infanticide. Seeing a baby left on a waste heap would be tough (call me a softy). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.Clodius Posted February 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2006 I'd go with the infanticide. Seeing a baby left on a waste heap would be tough (call me a softy). I think this practice had died out during the periods of my interests, 220's BC to 80'sAD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost_Warrior Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 The old "cure" for stomachache: wash your feet and then drink the water (that you used to wash your feet) imagine the diseases you could get by that!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pertinax Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 no pizza ! Â seriously, the non-industrial nature of such an advanced society as a generality, in particular- the non-personage of slaves as a daily lived experience. Â PC -women still wax their "bikini lines" today and shave their legs.The swiss sell a dedicated implement for the rotary cutting of nostril hair! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sextus Roscius Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 I find the "cure" for a stomach ace quite funny (this was a remedy used not uncommonly for a period of time) Â you swallow a small amount of lead, which would, infact, make your stomach ache stop, but you'd be dead pretty soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost_Warrior Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 I find the "cure" for a stomach ace quite funny (this was a remedy used not uncommonly for a period of time)Â you swallow a small amount of lead, which would, infact, make your stomach ache stop, but you'd be dead pretty soon. Â That is similar to the modern "cure" (not seriously used as this one was, although quite often referred to)~ "hit your thumb with a hammer to make a headache stop" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drussus Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 Aside from eating unusual stuff, the preverbial Badger's Earlobes and Wolf's Nipple Chips. What practices do you find most unusual from your studies? For me it would be the plucking of body hair, including pubic. Â Â Modern bodybuilders do that today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldrail Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 I'd go with the infanticide. Seeing a baby left on a waste heap would be tough (call me a softy). I think this practice had died out during the periods of my interests, 220's BC to 80'sAD Â No it hadn't. We know from remains found at Ephesus that women left their children in the sewers to die. Also, when Nero had Agrippina killed, protestors left babies outside the palace as a gesture of disgust. If a roman child was disabled, it was unlikely to survive anyway so the average father would probably not waste time rearing it to adulthood. Since these unwanted children were a ready source of slaves, the actual percentage of infanticides isn't as high as it seems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursus Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 What practices do you find most unusual from your studies? Â The Roman view of human sexuality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M. Porcius Cato Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 The Roman view of human sexuality. Â What's unusual about it. Seems to me like the view Lucretius expounded is almost a perfect match for the view that many men today would endorse--sleep with whomever you wish to get rid of your lust so you can focus on more important things. I'm too much of a romantic to buy that view, but I dare say that many moderns have an altogether cynical (and Roman) view about romance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmo Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 Worshiping the simbol of an ideea is, for me, by far the strangest thing romans did. Imagine to go and worship the statue of Disciplina Augusta! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pantagathus Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 Reclining to eat is all I've got. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost_Warrior Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 I don't understand how anyone could eat laying on their stomach (I mean, other than potato chips which I've been known to do). Eating a big meal like that, you would think you would get sick or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M. Porcius Cato Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 I don't understand how anyone could eat laying on their stomach (I mean, other than potato chips which I've been known to do). Eating a big meal like that, you would think you would get sick or something. I thought that was rather the point--you recline and just nibble for a long time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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