Without the internet, television, radio or any widespread means of communication, ancient Greek athletes had to struggle to make their success known and easily communicated to a broad public.
Helen Mirren playing Caesonia in Tinto Brass’ 1979 historical drama film, Caligula .
Following a number of films featuring debauched emperors, it is nowadays commonplace to associate the Greek-Roman antiquity with orgies. But is this historically accurate?
Mosaic in the entrance to the caldarium of the House of Menander, Pompei, 1st century A.D.
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