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The white lie we've been told about Roman statues

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  1. envy
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    Funny. Watch the first 33 seconds, then come back and look at the title again....

    Funny. Watch the first 33 seconds, then come back and look at the title again....

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  2. Death
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    I remember my old Latin teacher made a point of showing us shows like Rome, or other more historically accurate works to dispel the idea that ancient Rome/Greece was this beautiful, clean, marble...

    I remember my old Latin teacher made a point of showing us shows like Rome, or other more historically accurate works to dispel the idea that ancient Rome/Greece was this beautiful, clean, marble society full of white people which had been impressed on us by movies or comics like Astérix.
    Rome was a big, colorful city with huge dirty slums and built in styles we'd, ironically, consider more "Oriental" than western nowadays.

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