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No reports of blindness, but they may have received significant eye damage. Until the last 100-200 years when literacy become common the average pleb wasn't rea
by flukus 9y ago
No reports of blindness, but they may have received significant eye damage. Until the last 100-200 years when literacy become common the average pleb wasn't really aware of their eysight deterioration.
- wahern 9y agoAll kinds of human activity suffer significantly from poorer vision. For example, sewing and weaving, hunting and fishing. The term presbyopia isn't just derived from Greek, it was coined by the ancient Greeks themselves who also endeavored to understand the phenomenon. See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23773258 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23773258 If someone's eyes were damaged I have little doubt that they'd recognize the damage. I can imagine all sorts of reasons why this may not have been recorded, presuming such damage was common. But that they didn't realize their vision deteriorated, I highly doubt.