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Bad Neighborhoods in Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome was a hotbed of street crime. Other than a few wealthy families that lived in hilltop mansions the homes of the rich and poor were liberally mingled making everyone a likely victim of muggers or the guards who were supposed to provide protection. Some neighborhoods were notoriously unpleasant, as for their smell, but the places to really avoid were bars, barbers and brothels.
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Why the Sparta you know Never Existed
The modern popular perception of Spartans as aesthetic warriors is outwardly true as their history was written by their adversaries. While they were trained from an early age in fitness and martial arts, as adults they were a leisure class with fitness as part of their recreation. That made them better soldiers than the peasant volunteers in surrounding areas but they were hardly professionals.
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