Bisel: Hypoplastic lines- illness that child had, found on bones, on older individual bones so if you had an illness

it would stay on your bones, even the rich and poor had these because there is no escaping illness of children died Bisel comments on the low birth rate and fertility rate and the high mortility rate in childrenlead was used a lot in roman times and lead would lead to infertility They were relatively tall signifying that they had strong bones, because of a very healthy diet of fish and vegetables Really good teeth- because of the graze of food they ate, and because sugar wasnt in the west at that age. Didnt have as crowded teeth Studies done on skull- different skull sizes and variations showing the mixing of genes also showed an area of influx of genes between people Morly: Life in rome is nastier then most historians like to think, in the countryside was much healthier then the urban city because of immigrants coming in With certain diseases, the ormans were much better off then other nations Does pliney mention religion? Religion came up from regulus who pliny hates, and sooth sayersregulus was using the sooth sayers as a way to work himself into peoples wills and played on their feelings of religion and works his way into several peoples wills on their death bedso they sooth sayer made up saying they would live all rigged and then out of gratitude people would add regulus to will out of appreciation and then end up dyingPliny portrays religion as for the gullable people Eye infection on a trip: talks about turning the lights down, and how he had to stop reading and writing which was devastating, and just was drinking wine and relaxing in some ways self medicating How does he treat a slave: one of his slaves gets sick and starts vomiting blood (linked to tuberculosis) (most infectious diseases of Herculaneum at the time was TB and malaria etc) so he most likely had TB and pliney helped him and tried to get him feel better and said it would be a great losshe viewed him as a friend, this shows how romans viewed their slaves compared to other civilizationsromans relied on their slaves for familial reasons he gives treatment of a healthy climate rest and relaxation and thats all he could get Morley artice: role of doctors: Emperor agustus penalized married people who didnt have kids..and rewarded people with more than 3 kids and if a woman has 3 or more kids she has no male control and she can do whatever she wants

Peasants like big families for workbut in the city there is no benefit from having kids at all its a drag on moneythese kids had to be educated etc. known fact that when societies urbanize their birthrate plunges and this was an incredible era of urbanization, so little kids and low birth rates so they started bringing immigration in to make up for it

Q. Differences between Pompeii and Herculaneum: morally; health etc The diets of the twoherculaneum ate more seafood so had more floride so thats why they are taller, and their water was harder so they had less lead in their water also the wine would be sweetened in led syrup (cheap mans sweetner) so they may also have had less wine as a sweetner in their wine in Herculaneumalso the hypoplastic lines on their teeth in (?) and Pompeii was coser to water so more malaria and this is shown on the hypoplastic lines

Graffiti groups