What Hygiene Was Like for a Roman Emperor
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Published 2021-12-12
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All Comments (21)
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I love how Caesar was insecure about his hair loss.
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Honestly, compared to other places and times like Versailles, this isn’t that bad apart from the urine washing. At least these people bathed and had toilets
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I love these hygiene stories because they make me grateful for living in the 21st century. 😁
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It's pretty weird to know they didn't use soap. Like soap is literally made from ash oil and water, and if I'm correct was already used in the Middle East. Please make a video on the history of soap, or cleaning agents.
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I lived near the largest Roman ruins in the desert of Tunisia. Along with an intact colosseum there Was a building was the communal bathroom, with 8 seats carved out of stone and running water underneath. Some of the buildings had heated floors. We didn’t even begin to reach the sanitary levels of Rome until the late 1800’s.
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Watching these truly makes me so much more grateful to have lived this century. My mom told me horror stories of hygiene living in Appalachia. Ty God for everything you do for all of us and please help the less fortunate.
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In a 100 years time today’s hygiene would be considered filthy 😂
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I remember when I was in college, I was learning germ theory. In Europe, before germ theory was discovered by Koch, London's pipes had animal feces, dead animals, waste from slaughter houses, and contaminated ground water from graveyards. All of it ended up in Thames River which was most of the systems drinking water. It caused Cholera in the villages. I can't imagine how awful that must be.
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The public bath houses of Rome may not have been as filthy as you think. They were constantly flushed with fresh water :-)
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01:00 Cæsar is the answer to, "How would Squidward look if human?" 🦑
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I want to thank weird history for discussing interesting topics of history rather in school boring topics are discussed generally
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I love how aware people are about the ridiculousness of some traditions during this time
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for those wondering, the outro song at 11:15 is Vengase Con su Papi - Fernando Rios Roman 🤣
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I wonder if they were all in such great shape despite such lavish lifestyles, or they just had these sculptures made to depict them as such in the future.
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Fun fact - Gladiators used a strigil to scoop their sweat into jars, that would then be sold to the people, who believed that by ingesting it pure, or cooking with it/mixing it with drinks, they would absorb/inherit the strength and power of the gladiator. More modern, realistic fact - That shits just disgusting 🤮
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I went to Perge in Turkey. The Roman bath ruins were massive. I can imagine them back in the day. Absolutely impressive.
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Because of this channel i really want to have the ability to time travel and go back in those times and experience it myself
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I always like to the hygiene videos when I'm taking a bath as it reminds me to be grateful for every drop of water in the tub. I belong to a Health club that had a "eucalyptus room" a room kept a 50°F, eucalyptus oil pumped into the room, and a pool of cold water. I spent an insane amount of time in there and depressed when it was removed because not enough ppl used it. Florida is hot as hell so a cold room like this is like heaven.
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Can u do a video on hygiene for the Egyptian's? I have always been intrigued by their history for Aldo the fact that I have read somewhere yrs ago that the royal or higher status Egyptian's would bath from 10 to 15 times a day but I'm not sure how true that is either so it thats why I would love to see a video on the full history of their hygiene routines. Thanks for the great films, education and narration 🙏
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When I was in Bath as a child they mentioned the natural spring water would also help with cleansing when they went in for a little while. Probably the same as the skincare Avene.
