Were there Opium Addicts in Ancient Rome?

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• OL

  @olenickel6013 · 3 years ago

  I just want to note that the mentioned medical uses of opium by the Romans sound perfectly reasonable. Opioids are still used as pain relief for a number of skin diseases and the cough suppressing qualities of opioids are well known .

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• EM

  @emilygrace1692 · 3 years ago

  Whoever asked about hobbies -- THANK YOU. This is the exact kind of thing I wonder about, as well as anything that can give us insight to the internal state, thoughts, and feelings of every day people in other times and places.

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• QU

  @QuantumHistorian · 3 years ago

  On the topic of the first question, I'd add Quintus Sertorius to the list of famous turncoat Romans. After being on the losing side of a civil war at the turn of the 1st century BC, he ended up leading the natives of Hispania in a very successful resistance against Senatorial armies for many years.

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• CL

  @cliveblacksheep2522 · 3 years ago

  “Nothing is new under the sun”

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• C6

  @c63amgblack · 3 years ago

  Commenting for the gods of the algorithm! Love your work and your voice is very soothing

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• KI

  @kingspore5000 · 3 years ago (edited)

  In 1st question you should've mention Roman defectors during Mithritadic wars. It were they who did teach Pontus' troops Roman tactics and introduced to them equipment similiar to Roman in later stages of this conflict

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• ZO

  @Zog696 · 3 years ago

  Have never watched a Told In Stone video which wasn’t highly erudite and very entertaining.<br>Love your work &amp; many thanks !

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• SO

  @Sonofwill · 2 years ago

  Markus Aurelius, was dependent on it, Gallen his physician who even today is world renowned for his medical contributions to medicine and his extensive medical writings we have been lucky to not lost to history, described that he used it for aiding sleep, but also that if he did not have or use the medicine, he would not be able to talk to his fellow soldiers, and was unwell, they surly must of concluded that people who would use it for a period of time and then when they did not, that they could not function, and surly observed that they required it, although they may not have been able to label it as an addiction, dependence would have shown in their behaviours. Especially a physician who advised and treated people with it. <br>Once you look you see drugs everywhere in the ancient world!

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• MI

  @minkoffjustin6699 · 3 years ago

  Just doing my part by leaving a comment

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• MA

  @MADGuy248 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I only managed to saw your answer to my question today!! Thank you so much for answering and all your great work!!

• CA

  @CarlTheLazyReseller · 3 years ago

  I&apos;ve always wondered how spoils were shared among soldiers. How did they stop them from killing each other if someone found something really valuable?

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• JO

  @joseserrano141 · 2 years ago

  Thank you sir , very educational