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"What's that? You mentioned ROME in an offhand comment? Let me tell you about the economics of olive oil presses in Roman Africa..." (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 month ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[–] HKPiax@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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!

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

One thing caught my attention though: what did they scrape oil off the skin with? I must see this ancient tool!

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.

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I know this one!! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigil

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago

Famn, PugJesus beat me to it. I love you Pug!

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

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... 🤌🏼

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

PugJeSuis

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 weeks ago

and his porcine brother-from-another-mother: PorgJeSooo'i