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by JumpCrisscross 1134 days ago
> rich slave owning Greeks and Romans while not marching to another battle?

Yes.

> Do we know anything about the exercise habits of the poor (other than the dude in the bathtub) or the slaves?

This is a notorious blind spot in our knowledge of our antiquity. It’s partly why the ruins at Pompeii were so interesting.