Very interesting, I love how you make it a digestible, 2-3 minutes read.
For some reason I find it so fascinating, maybe also because it probably looked/tasted the same 2000 years ago, and I eat it daily. I don’t know, it just makes these people feel more “real” and close than they usually feel when I read about battles and shit.
One thing caught my attention though: what did they scrape oil off the skin with? I must see this ancient tool!
Thanks for the great read PugJesus, as always. I mean it!
Hear hear! If they keep laying out such transportive capsules of history for us curious masses to dive into & explore like weekend couch-forts of yore, they just might end up inspiring a most singular NPC in their image. 🦄🧙🏿♂️🤘🏼
With a couple diacriticals stirred in to sci∨fi it up Pugʝɘ’ʐuʑ (“Süß” among friends, ofc) could be from any far-off realm or tech-level —or, all of them… 🤌🏼
Depiction of an athlete cleaning himself with one, though oftentimes they’d have someone do it for them.
The Emperor Hadrian once came upon a veteran in the public baths scraping his back against a wall. When the Emperor asked him why, the veteran replied that he had no other way to scrape his back. Hadrian, moved by the relative poverty of the veteran, gifted him a slave (look, the ancient world was shitty) and money to maintain himself.
The next time Hadrian went to the baths, there were numerous men scraping their backs against the wall. Hadrian called them all over to him, and then had them pair up and scrape each other.
Also, related to olive oil, there’s a kind of simple pancake that the Romans fried with olive oil, and I can attest that it’s delicious and easy to make.
And PugJesus delivers!
Very interesting, I love how you make it a digestible, 2-3 minutes read.
For some reason I find it so fascinating, maybe also because it probably looked/tasted the same 2000 years ago, and I eat it daily. I don’t know, it just makes these people feel more “real” and close than they usually feel when I read about battles and shit.
One thing caught my attention though: what did they scrape oil off the skin with? I must see this ancient tool!
Thanks for the great read PugJesus, as always. I mean it!
I know this one!! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigil
Famn, PugJesus beat me to it. I love you Pug!
Hear hear! If they keep laying out such transportive capsules of history for us curious masses to dive into & explore like weekend couch-forts of yore, they just might end up inspiring a most singular NPC in their image. 🦄🧙🏿♂️🤘🏼
With a couple diacriticals stirred in to sci∨fi it up Pugʝɘ’ʐuʑ (“Süß” among friends, ofc) could be from any far-off realm or tech-level —or, all of them… 🤌🏼
PugJeSuis
and his porcine brother-from-another-mother: PorgJeSooo’i
The Strigil!
Depiction of an athlete cleaning himself with one, though oftentimes they’d have someone do it for them.
The Emperor Hadrian once came upon a veteran in the public baths scraping his back against a wall. When the Emperor asked him why, the veteran replied that he had no other way to scrape his back. Hadrian, moved by the relative poverty of the veteran, gifted him a slave (look, the ancient world was shitty) and money to maintain himself.
The next time Hadrian went to the baths, there were numerous men scraping their backs against the wall. Hadrian called them all over to him, and then had them pair up and scrape each other.
Also, related to olive oil, there’s a kind of simple pancake that the Romans fried with olive oil, and I can attest that it’s delicious and easy to make.