Gutz on Instagram: "1. Excavations in Ephesus uncovered the remains of dozens of Roman gladiators. When analyzed, their bones showed unusually high levels of strontium — a chemical marker not of meat, but of barley and beans. Archaeologists nicknamed them hordearii, or “barley men.” 2. Meat was reserved for the wealthy. Gladiators consumed what society called “slave food”: dense grains, legumes, and vegetable ash dissolved in sour wine. What looked like poverty was in fact a deliberate recovery

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