Top 10 Terrifying Things The Ancient Greeks Did

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Top 10 Terrifying Things The Ancient Greeks Did https://www.youtube.com/user/jacobsmith6754 The Greeks were philosophers. They were the fathers of democracy, men of a more civilized time who lived lives of meaning in the pursuit of truth. On paper, anyway. Everyday life, though, was less glamorous than the few shining moments that made their way into history. Real life in ancient Greece was difficult, dirty, and often truly disgusting. Let’s aim for 30 likes, so go down and drop a like on the video. With that being said let’s jump straight into it. Subscribe to our channel: https://goo.gl/wXYv9V Video Description: 10 People Wiped Themselves with Stones Toilet paper didn’t make its way to Europe until the 16th century. Before then, people had to find their own ways to clean up. Like the Romans, the Greeks would sometimes clean themselves with a sponge attached to a stick—but not every Greek was so lucky. More often, the Greeks would clean themselves with stones. They kept a pile of pebbles at their lavatories and grated hard stone against their bodies to clean up. Apparently, these were hard to come by. The Greeks had a saying to encourage a little frugality in the bathroom: “Three stones are enough to wipe.”Other times, they’d take broken shards of ceramic pots and scrape themselves clean with that. It might not be a coincidence that haemorrhoids were a major problem in ancient Greece. 9 Slaves Had To Wear Chastity Belts The Greeks didn’t want their slaves to waste their time making love under the stars. If you were a slave in ancient Greece, there was a decent chance your owner would make you wear a chastity belt just to make sure. Greek slaves would often have to endure something called infibulation. That meant that a metal ring would be wrapped around their genitals. It would seal them shut tightly enough that even getting excited would be painful, and it could only be taken off with a key. If your master made you wear a chastity belt, you knew it could have been a lot worse. This was really just an alternative to becoming a eunuch. 8 People Washed Their Mouths Out With Urine In ancient Greece, pee was such a big business that the government had special taxes in place just for urine sales. There were people who made their living just from collecting urine. Some would gather it at public urinals. Others went door-to-door with a big vat and asked people to fill it up. The ways they used it are the last ones you’d expect. For example, they’d clean their clothes in pee. Workers would fill a tub full of clothing and pee, and then one poor soul would be sent in to stomp all over the clothing to wash it out. Which is nothing compared to how they cleaned their teeth. In some areas, people used urine as a mouthwash, which they claimed kept their teeth shining white. “I think would rather have bright yellow teeth than having the breath of someone else’s pee”. 7 Sneezing Was Promoted as An Effective Birth Control Method The Greek physician Soranus taught that birth control was a woman’s responsibility. If a woman got pregnant, he felt, it was her own fault. After all, it was a little unreasonable to expect men to do anything to stop that from happening. In reality, if a Greek woman got pregnant, it probably was a man’s fault—specifically, Soranus’s. He told women that they could just sneeze instead of using contraceptives. After making love, Soranus told women that they just needed to squat, sneeze, and rinse and they wouldn’t get pregnant. Obviously, it didn’t work. Soranus had a few backup ideas, though. He also suggested rubbing honey or cedar resin on your genitals before making love—which, if nothing else, probably discouraged people from having sex in the first place. 6 Athletes Sold Their Sweat Before competing, Greek athletes would take off all their clothes and cover themselves in oil. That was how they performed. Whether they were running or grappling with another man, Greek athletes would do it naked. By the end, they would usually be covered in filth. So afterward, the athletes scraped all that sweat, filth, and dead skin off their bodies. It would be gross to watch—but a lot worse if your job was to help out.A group of slaves working as gloios-collectors would have to do just that. More Videos By Us: 10 People With Extreme Plastic Surgery Addiction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgZOFyLnqYY 10 Unusual Things That Only Exist In China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewJBxhULQ6Y&t; For copyright matters please contact us at: jaydebussiness@gmail.com Our Social Media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/DidntKnowYT Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThingsYouDidntKnowYOUTUBE Music: Kevin MacLeod Narrated By: If you like top 10 and facts videos be sure to subscribe as we upload weekly entertaining videos.Similar to other channels like extreme trends and alltime10s. Subscribe To Things You Didn't Know