> And if you want to be really persnickety, no amount of money in Rome would buy antibiotics, televisions, etc, etc.
True, but there’s plenty of things that could have been bought in ancient Rome that simply aren’t for sale today.
True, but there’s plenty of things that could have been bought in ancient Rome that simply aren’t for sale today.
What other than slaves?
Far more animals available today. A far greater selection of meat and vegetables today. Far more selection of sexual services available today. Far more medicines (plus they work).
But then there a lots of legal ones, like sex with a sex worker without getting an STD for life.
You don't have a car or plane so they will all be the same down the road in your small town aka Rome. Rome would have been very homogeneous with ethnicity (Yes it would)
You have better soap and washing powder now. Today you can chose someone with good dental.
The past wasn't this imaginary movie using 21st century props everyone thinks it was. It was shit. It was boring.
Rome was bush weed. Today is MDMA