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From your source: > One possibility Mitchell offers is that it may have actually been the warm communal waters of the bathhouses that helped spread the parasit

From your source: > One possibility Mitchell offers is that it may have actually been the warm communal waters of the bathhouses that helped spread the parasitic worms. There was no causality proved, so you can't say that for certain. Also, washing clothes in urine isn't necessarily bad. It's pretty clean and contains ammonia, which is a cleaning chemical. > Read the graffiti uncovered in Pompeii. Nearly half of it deals with people taking a crap in the street. Half? I could imagine one or two pictures; citation needed to sell me on more. > Ancient Romans being a bunch of cruel slaving Yeah, keeping slaves was bad. > filthy rednecks Well that seems needlessly pejorative and intended as much to intended a particular people group of today. Can't everyone just appreciate what the Romans did do right and agree that keeping slaves is bad? Also Roman slaves weren't always treated like stereotypical "plantation slaves"; which is a common misconception when people hear "slaves". Still bad, though.

thaumasiotes 7y ago
You can see the graffiti yourself at http://ancientgraffiti.org http://ancientgraffiti.org . Cursory inspection revealed zero referring to people relieving themselves in the street, though I don't doubt those exist. Isolated names are very frequent. Some of these are pretty interesting: > IV Non(as) Iul(ias) paenulam, palliolum [?posita ad Fau]stilla(m) Pr[o---] L usur[a] [deduxit?] XIIIS (?) [aeri]s a(sses) VIII > Four days before the Nones of July, a traveler's cloak and a small cloak (were deposited with Fau)stilla (for collateral). Fo(r) fifty (denarii?) she [is charging] 13.5 (coppe)r a(sses) (per month, as interest). 8. --- > ABCDEFGḤỊKOPQRTVX --- > ABCDEFGHLIMPKONQRXTVS --- > ABCDEFGHI (gap) KL (gap) MNOPQRSTVX This one is an exact mirror of the modern alphabet (except Y and Z); I'm not sure why there are gaps. --- Some are timeless: > Victor cum Attine hic fuit > Victor was with Attine here. --- > Hic ego puellas multas futui > I fucked a lot of girls here. --- > Fututa sum hic > I [a woman] was fucked here. --- > Antiochus hic mansit cum sua cithera > Antiochus stayed here with his cythera [not sure what this means]
- jacobush 7y ago
  greek originated lover?
  - thaumasiotes 7y ago
    Not actually a terrible guess; references to the island are an established poetic way to refer to Venus (who originated by washing up on its shore). http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3DCythera http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%... And there I thought I'd found something different.
selimthegrim 7y ago
Polio can spread through such pools too

thaumasiotes 7y ago

You can see the graffiti yourself at http://ancientgraffiti.org http://ancientgraffiti.org . Cursory inspection revealed zero referring to people relieving themselves in the street, though I don't doubt those exist. Isolated names are very frequent. Some of these are pretty interesting: > IV Non(as) Iul(ias) paenulam, palliolum [?posita ad Fau]stilla(m) Pr[o---] L usur[a] [deduxit?] XIIIS (?) [aeri]s a(sses) VIII > Four days before the Nones of July, a traveler's cloak and a small cloak (were deposited with Fau)stilla (for collateral). Fo(r) fifty (denarii?) she [is charging] 13.5 (coppe)r a(sses) (per month, as interest). 8. --- > ABCDEFGḤỊKOPQRTVX --- > ABCDEFGHLIMPKONQRXTVS --- > ABCDEFGHI (gap) KL (gap) MNOPQRSTVX This one is an exact mirror of the modern alphabet (except Y and Z); I'm not sure why there are gaps. --- Some are timeless: > Victor cum Attine hic fuit > Victor was with Attine here. --- > Hic ego puellas multas futui > I fucked a lot of girls here. --- > Fututa sum hic > I [a woman] was fucked here. --- > Antiochus hic mansit cum sua cithera > Antiochus stayed here with his cythera [not sure what this means]

jacobush 7y ago
greek originated lover?
- thaumasiotes 7y ago
  Not actually a terrible guess; references to the island are an established poetic way to refer to Venus (who originated by washing up on its shore). http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3DCythera http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%... And there I thought I'd found something different.

selimthegrim 7y ago

Polio can spread through such pools too