[HN Gopher] Filthy Romans: Dirty secrets of the bath-obsessed an...
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Filthy Romans: Dirty secrets of the bath-obsessed ancients (2016)
Author : revolucien
Score : 36 points
Date : 2023-08-11 12:22 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.newscientist.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.newscientist.com)
| postmeta wrote:
| better analysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermae_Romae
| greggsy wrote:
| Describes a manga series on the topic, but adds little to the
| discussion
| bigbacaloa wrote:
| This must be the most humorless site on the net.
| Groxx wrote:
| +1 to this. The episode descriptions also don't seem to have
| much of anything to do with sanitation consequences of shared
| baths.
|
| Not that I expect deep analyses of the consequences of the
| protagonist's actions in an isekai, of course.
| pseingatl wrote:
| Those in the Middle East are horrified by the lack of hygiene in
| the West. Imagine, using dry paper to clean your posterior.
| flextheruler wrote:
| Isn't the Burj Khalifa not even hooked up to the sewer system
| so all the feces and urine is loaded onto trucks daily?
|
| Also open air sewers are still common in a lot of places, an
| Iranian American friend of mine claimed he almost fell into one
| as a kid.
| laserdancepony wrote:
| Generalization par excellence. I've been there and won't concur
| with your assessment.
| lm28469 wrote:
| You've probably ever been in the middle east then...
| joebiden2 wrote:
| The wordy article boils down to: the baths were infested by
| bacteria and worms due to insufficient water cleaning.
| Interesting, but could be compressed to 2-3 paragraphs without
| losing any detail.
|
| Thanks for posting though.
| User3456335 wrote:
| Some other interesting things from the article that stuck with
| me:
|
| - Most toilets weren't connected to the sewers because they
| didn't want to have the smell of the sewers in their houses -
| The public latrines were considered a bad choice because of
| lack of privacy and shared spunges (based on texts on the
| walls) - The sewers were built mainly for the convenience of
| not having to transport water to and from within the city, not
| necessarily for hygiene reasons - Apparently some emperor did
| realize that it wasn't smart to bathe with sick and healthy
| people at the same time but decided the sick would bathe before
| the healthy
|
| Of course, if you only wanted to know if they cleaned the water
| in bath houses sufficiently, then your summary suffices as
| well.
| brudgers wrote:
| archive, https://archive.ph/Y1un4
| phyzome wrote:
| I'm gonna need a captcha bypasser to access this site that does
| paywall-bypassing...
| brnaftr361 wrote:
| Same here, been served a loop all week long.
| mulmen wrote:
| Wow, it's actually just broken? I managed to attempt to solve
| two but got stuck in a look and then the third try the
| captcha renders off the screen.
| gunapologist99 wrote:
| their implementation is badly broken. Usually with google's
| recaptcha you get to a second screen, but I never even see
| that second screen on this site.
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