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Xylospongium. The xylospongium or tersorium, also known as a " sponge on a stick ", was a utensil found in ancient Roman latrines, consisting of a wooden stick ( Greek: ξύλον, xylon) with a sea sponge (Greek: σπόγγος, spongos) fixed at one end. Academics disagree as to its exact use, about which the primary sources are vague.
[2] [3] Ancient Greeks and Romans also used sea sponges tied to sticks for anal hygiene, a tool known as the xylospongium, and washed them with sea water. [4] Ancient Romans used sea sponges extensively for hygiene, as well as other uses. The belief that sponges had therapeutic properties led to their usage in medicine for cleaning wounds and ...
The Holy Sponge is one of the Instruments of the Passion of Jesus. [1] It was dipped in vinegar ( Ancient Greek: ὄξος, romanized : oxos; in some translations sour wine ), most likely posca, [2] a regular beverage of Roman soldiers, [3] and offered to Jesus to drink from during the Crucifixion, [2] according to Matthew 27:48, [4] Mark 15:36 ...
A young toga-clad man of letters holding a scroll. In classical antiquity, Greek and Roman writers were acquainted with people of every skin tone from very pale (associated with populations from Scythia) to very dark (associated with populations from sub-Saharan Africa ( Aethiopia ). People described with words meaning "black", or as Aethiopes ...
Suburra. The Suburra, or Subura (from the latin Subura) was a vast and populous neighborhood of Ancient Rome, located below the Murus Terreus on the Carinae [ 1] and stretching on the slopes of the Quirinal and Viminal hills up to the offshoots of the Esquiline ( Oppian, Cispian and Fagutal hills [ 2] ). Since the lower part of the neighborhood ...
The history of anal hygiene, from the Greco-Roman world to ancient China and ancient Japan, involves the widespread use of sponges and sticks as well as water and paper. The inclusion of anal cleansing facilities is often overlooked in the design of public or shared toilets in developing countries.
Social class in ancient Rome. Social class in ancient Rome was hierarchical, with multiple and overlapping social hierarchies. An individual's relative position in one might be higher or lower than in another, which complicated the social composition of Rome. [ 1]
Antium was an ancient coastal town in Latium, south of Rome. An oppidum was founded by people of Latial culture (11th century BC or the beginning of the 1st millennium BC), [1] then it was the main stronghold of the Volsci people until it was conquered by the Romans. In some versions of Rome's foundation myth, Antium was founded by Anteias, son ...