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I should probably mention that the history does not reflect the person in this case. This is probably the hardest episode I have ever researched or written. I am a father, I am a person and I have  feelings... surprisingly. Talking about killing daughters or sons is the hardest thing I have ever had to do. Perhaps that is why this episode is taking so long to produce. So here it is child exposure in ancient Rome.

I want you to know this first episode will be about child exposure, what it is and why it happened. I will mention briefly about how it affected slavery according to different sources but… this episode serves as a memory and condolences to everyone who has lost a loved one before their time. Perhaps you have lost a son or daughter. It is perhaps the greatest pain known to humanity to outlive your child and this episode is dedicated to those lost souls. May you rest in peace.

Today I will teach you why it was done, how it was done and how it perpetuated Roman Slavery. Before you listen to this episode I strongly encourage any parents to find their children and give them a hug. Tell them they are loved and just know that if you lived in Ancient Rome as you look upon the faces of your children that you may have been forced to kill them or leave them to die only to see their faces painted on the face of a slave. 

It is important not to issue moral condemnations unthinkingly; instead we should take notice of the dilemmas that ancient parents faced when it seemed necessary to expose an infant child. By all means let us recognize ancient harshness, and patterns of action and thought which to modern morality (not lacking in its own forms of cruelty and heartlessness) are execrable. But in very many cases exposure was the con- sequence of a hard imperative.

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I'm sick of gruel, and the dietetics, I'm sick of pills, and sicker of emetics, I'm sick of pulses, tardiness or quickness, I'm sick of blood, its thinness or its thickness, - In short, within a word, I'm sick of sickness! THOMAS HOOD, 'Fragment', c. 1844

They are shallow animals, having always employed their minds about Body and Gut, they imagine that in the entire system of things there is nothing but Gut and Body.

In this episode, I talk about trepanning, malaria therapy and eating the flesh of dead people!

In short, I know how to keep it real, I hope you enjoy this episode of History Uncensored as I procrastinate yet again in releasing my episode on exposure!

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This episode is about the Marriage law that allows Theodora to marry Justinian and their first 5ish years in imperial office.

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How you got sick in the old days and what they did about it.

Random concerned citizen: “man I don’t feel soo good”

Priestly dude: oh man you got some demons in your blood, we should probably let it out.

Concerned citizen: that sounds kind of dangerous, is it safe?

Priestly guy: So you think it’s safe to have demons in your blood?

Concerned Citizen: You’re probably right, get that blood out I’m hot as a prostitutes ass in hell.

Priestly guy: how did you know about vi.. I need some leech demon vessels, a knife and a hand drill.

R.C: hand drill?

Priestly D: you don’t look great they might already be in your head.

Throughout centuries philosophers and scientists tried to explain the way of infectious diseases transmission. Witchcraft, demons, gods, comets, earthquakes were the first unproved theories, followed by tangible scientific ones such as miasma’s theory, contagious theory, spontaneous generation theory and germ theory till the evolution of microbiology in mid 19th century.

Primitive ideas about contagiousness dealt with the general notion of transmission through contact. Epidemics were probably rare in small primitive tribes but they became terrifying events once population density increased enough to produce and sustain them. At that time people’s ignorance led to magical or religious explanations of disease, sent by the gods as punishment for their sins.

Characteristically, in Ancient Persia we see an emphasis on demonology. The disease is caused by evil spirits and must be controlled by exorcism. The cult of Nergal, a demon portrayed in hymns and myths as a god of war, fever and pestilence.

In 6th century BC, the pre-Socratic philosophers Pythagoras, Alcmaeon, and Empedocles inaugurated the period in science where the environment was understood to play a vital role in health and disease. A century later, Airs, waters and places of the Hippocratic texts, correlated a variety of symptoms and diseases with geographical and meteorological conditions, for example malaria, catarrh and diarrhea were believed to be due to the effect of seasonal changes on stagnant water or marshy places [6]. Such concepts survived and in time consolidated in the belief that a pathological state of the atmosphere is associated with infectious diseases and this line of thinking developed further into the miasma theory of contagion [7]. Air became contaminated with “miasmas”, poisonous vapors produced by putrefying organic matter and a person could become infected when miasmas invaded the body and disturbed its vital functions. In his manuscript.

The real reason I’m here who needs demons when you have miasmas?

Also, do you know how many self-published books are named miasma? Probably not why would you that would be stupid. I can tell you there are many.

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Welcome to History Uncensored presents histories dirty shorts a series designed to make me feel less bad about putting out proper content frequently. These will be shorter episodes in between the main episodes of stuff that I find funny, interesting or topical. This week I find all of this funny interesting and topical I will be talking about the epizootic of 1878 and then a little about the spanish flu.

So buckle up buttercup and prepared to be terrified as we discuss the coronavirus and the flu. See told you I’d be topical.

The Corona Virus is making people freak out. Why? Because viruses are fucking terrifying, you generally can’t go get a get better pill like you can with bacterial infections.

No, I don’t have the time or patience right now to explain the differences to you. Use the google machine.

Both the seasonal flu and the dreaded coronavirus are contagious and cause respiratory illness.

Deadly outbreaks in chickens were first reported in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., on Nov 15, 1872, the article says. Whole flocks usually got sick at the same time, with most or all of the birds dying. The disease struck prairie chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese as well as chickens. The illness went by many names, but newspapers most often called it "the chicken disease.

The authors found evidence of the epizootic in 9 of the 22 states included in their search; they concluded that it was concentrated in the Northeast and Midwest and continued until Dec 15, 1872. All the avian outbreaks occurred in areas that were having, or had had within the previous 1 to 2 weeks, widespread equine flu. A number of local observers linked the avian disease to the equine disease and said that chickens got sick after being allowed to forage in stables that housed ill or recently ill horses.

The researchers say it is impossible to conclusively identify any of the animal diseases of the time, because no materials suitable for microbial testing have been found. But the avian disease's strong association with equine flu and its clinical and epidemiologic features are "highly consistent with influenza,

McCLURE, J. (1998). The Epizootic of 1872: Horses and Disease in a Nation in Motion. New York History, 79(1), 4-22. Retrieved February 6, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/23182287

Ungrateful man never appreciated my faithful services until now. When I am convalescent I hope he will treat me with more consideration and kindness.

In the Fal of 1872 America’s horses became sick rapidly and in insane numbers. New York City became a spectacle of wretched-looking horses. It never lasted more than a few weeks in any given location but because of this equine sickness men were pulling fire carts through the city, oxen were seen on the streets and do good citizens hauled loaded streetcars through the avenues.

The sickness in 1872 was none other than influenza. Not surprisingly it has the same effects on horses that it does on humans. Runny nose, malaise, coughing, sore throat, fever weakness you get the idea.

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The history of women is dark, it is clouded by the minds and portents of men and their unjustified patriarchy for the entirety of human kind. Some listening may point out matriarchal societies in the past, Say hey but these things exist, these miniscule opportunities to women outside of the modern world existed.

Yup, but any real historian of women understands that they moved the world, usually in unseen fashion. At the sides of great men, there they are women. They; the  light in the shadow filtering the words of men destined to be heard throughout the world. I want to seek these opportunities that women have taken and generated waves that can still be felt today.

Out topic today is none other Theodora,  Theodora (theou dôron in Greek) means “gift of God”.  I know I usually want to take women who were not royalty and highlight them, but Theodora is worth accentuating her role. From humble beginnings we have the empress Theodora the savior of Byzantium and Constantinople.

One of the reasons I chose Theodora is that she seems to me a woman in my mind the modern sense of one. Independant, intelligent, shrewd, and compassionate. Theodora embodies so much we love in a story, the underdog, the beauty, darkness and light good and bad you get the fucking idea. A self made woman who conquered and empire in an age when women did very little.

The two main sources I used are the books Theodora Empress of Byzantium and Theodora Actress, Empress, Saint

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[email protected] Twitter: @Seth4nerds Spartacus: Even those who aren’t familiar with history have probably heard the name. It’s a name that has been passed down 2 millenia, over two thousand years the ultimate underdog story has capitulated in the minds of men. It has given some hope, it has assailed others with fear. What does the name Spartacus mean to you if anything? today I want to change things up a bit. Usually i focus the narrative on pretty much just facts and I hope that it is as interesting to you as it is to me. For those of you that do not know me personally which I assume is most of you something that I do in my spare time is Dungeons and Dragons, I know huge nerd. Beyond that as probably would surprise nobody listening to this podcast is I am a dungeon master (How can something sound so cool, so terrible and so utterly silly at the same time) Nevermind that’s for a different time. I am going to try and tell his story, Spartacus’ story as just that a narrative. Yes, it will hopefully have all of the facts within it but it might also contain the excitement and I will not refrain my tongue from the narrative as I normally do. If I did that Normally each episode would be at least two hours and I would never subject you guys to that. So here we go! Welcome to History Uncensored as always I am your host Seth Michels and today history can go “uck itself. Spartacus was born in Thrace and if you don’t know where that is I forgive you because “Thrace” is not a real fucking place anymore. Just as in a lot of cases with these old stories some of these places have gone through different names and 2000 years can be hard on historical accuracy. Also, I suck with names deal with it. Where was I… Oh yeah Thrace! That place geographically it is to the north and east of what we can think of as traditional Greece.  Thrace was still very rural during the times of the Roman’s and during the 2nd and 3rd century BC were enemies of Rome. That was a long time ago in the story of Spartacus though. Our hero, our underdog was born sometime around 109bc when Thrace was firmly under the rule and “subjugation” of Rome. Interesting Cultural note on Thrace: They like to “uck The Thracians were polygamous as Menander puts it: "All Thracians, especially us and the Getae, are not much abstaining, because no one takes less than ten, eleven, twelve wives, some even more. If one dies and has only four or five wives he is called ill-fated, unhappy and unmarried."[59] According to Herodotus virginity among women was not valued, and unmarried Thracian women could have sex with any man they wished to. Also of interesting note, Thracians were often depicted as having red or auburn hair. The gingers of the ancient world. I am not sure if that makes Spartacus more or less terrifying than what I envisioned him as. Thanks, Kubrick ya Prick. Thracians were a warrior people and valued bravery in battle, especially on horseback. They made excellent light cavalry units and were proficient with javelins and spears. Perhaps it was this early warfare training that brought out what would eventually be Spartacus the Gladiator and Spartacus the General. We don’t know shit about Spartacus’ upbringing I mean literal Dogshit about it. I know Fuckall- he was born and then suddenly we pick up history as an auxiliary unit within the Roman army- probably fighting Mithridates. Mithridates is important to Spartacus, probably not as a person or a friend or anything but Mithridates war on Rome really assisted in making Spartacus’ uprising the most successful Slave Revolt in history to that point. Also while we are talking about slave revolts, don’t worry guys ill get to Spartacus ginger big dick in a little bit. I want to talk about the two slave revolts that took place in the recent history in Spartacus’ time that contributed to the decisions that Rome made and the Decisions that Spartacus made. Important Revolt number 1 in Rom--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/seth-michels66/support

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Twitter: Seth4nerdsFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/historyuncensoredpod/Email: [email protected]  Gladiators part 2 Last week we Learned about who the gladiators were, as people. This week I want to Focus on the fights and who the gladiators were as combatants.  Let the Games begin!Gladiators were not an undifferentiated group of sword fighters; they were divided up into categories based on different styles of armour, weapons and fighting. Sometimes it is hard to determine with certainty the type a gladiator depicted in surviving ancient representations. We must accept the possibility that occasionally variety in armour and weapons was allowed within a given gladiator category.166 For the most part, however, gladiators conformed generally to type. During the Republic, there were five known gladiator types: samnis (Samnite), gallus (Gaul), thraex (Thracian), provocator (‘challenger’) and eques (‘horseman’).  The first three types are ethnic in origin, that is, their armour, weapons and style of fighting were derived from peoples who had engaged in war with the Romans: the Samnites, Gauls and Thracians. As noted earlier, these gladiator types must have developed from the practice of forcing prisoners of war from the same region to fight each other wearing their characteristic armour and employing their distinctive fighting styles. In time, the names of these three ethnic gladiatorial types no longer indicated warriors native to these regions, but merely a gladiatorial style. These ethnic gladiatorial types throughout the Republic kept the memory of Rome’s past military successes alive by re-enacting them in the arena. The Samnite and the Gaul, the earliest gladiator types we know of, did not survive much beyond the Republic; only the thraex survived into the imperial period and remained popular into late antiquity. Eques One type of gladiator easy to identify is the eques (‘horseman’), a lightly armed fighter who fought both on horseback and on the ground. It is clear that the equites were real horsemen. Cicero reports that the crowd’s hissing of an unpopular politician startled ‘the gladiators and their horses’.171 These gladiators with horses could only be the equites. An eques always fought an opponent of the same category.172 The only detailed description we have of the equites in a munus comes from a medieval author Isidore of Seville (seventh century AD), but his overall knowledge of gladiators accords well with the ancient sources, thus giving credence to the evidence he provides: “Of the several types of gladiators, the first contest involves the equestrians. Two equites, preceded by military standards, entered the arena, one from the west, the other from the east, riding on white horses, wearing smallish golden helmets and carrying light weapons.” Provocator The provocator(‘challenger’) was another gladiatorial type that originated in theRepublicandsurvivedintoimperialtimes.Ciceromentionstheprovocator in the same speech along with the equites and the Samnites.178 The provocator looked much more like a standard gladiator than did the eques. His visored helmet was not brimmed and had a neck guard in the back. He wore a loincloth (subligaculum), standard attire for all gladiators except for the eques, and a greave on his left leg. The shield of the provocateur was concave and rectangular. Perhaps his most identifiable feature was the breastplate he wore, held on the body by straps that met at the back, which protected the upper chest.179 No other type of gladiator wore any protective armour on the chest. Thraex The thraex was the sole survivor into the imperial period of the ethnic-based gladiators of the Republic. It is uncertain when the thraex became a gladiatorial type at Rome. There are two possibilities: (1) when Rome took Thracian mercenaries captive in the war against Perseus (171–167 BC), or (2) when many Thracians were taken as prisoners in the Mithdridatic wars in the 80s BC--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/seth-michels66/support

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