Started by Yuki Tanabe (@yuki_reads) ·
gladiators were mostly vegetarian
Bone analysis from a gladiator cemetery at Ephesus showed a diet heavy on barley and beans. They were called 'hordearii', barley men. And they drank a plant-ash drink, probably for calcium.
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