You can do. I have done it. I can run with an aspis, fence individually with it, punch with it. It can all be done, it’s just exhausting. But a 5th C. BC ekdromos was probably a lot more fit than I am.https://twitter.com/Verghast404/status/1262452292873117699 …
I actually question the idea that people in the ancient world were generally more fit than a reasonably active modern person. In most cases, higher levels of physical activity are offset by lower levels of nutrition.
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This was my question. I have read that the better nutrition available in the colonies allowed US militiamen to be taller than stronger than British regulars. Obviously a different time period but we also see some people claim people were generally shorter back in the day 1/2
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What about the aristocracy who generally would have 1) carried the aspis in the frontline 2) had more nutrition 3) had more exercise? I now that goes against your academic desire of focusing on the common folk of the past, but factoring that in, what then?
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Perhaps, but I've seen guys in India with arms and legs like matchsticks carrying loads that I wouldn't attempt.
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From what I recall of my paleopathology days, the claim of lower levels of nutrition in the ancient world is often either overblown or misunderstood. Male children of the middle and upper classes, who would be expected to join the military later, were typically given better food.
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Put Roth (1999)'s tables of Roman army nutrition (quite ample to avoid malnutrition!) against modern athletic diets. The Roman army diet hits the calorie numbers, but falls well short on protein and other nutrition (it's too carb heavy).
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I've read that classical Greek literary sources rarely (e.g. compared to the Iliad) attest meat except fish or sacrificial roasts; does wider evidence indicate a low protein diet even for hoplite elites in Greek poleis?
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The diet is bread heavy, but exactly how bread heavy is really difficult to assess. Forbes and Foxhall "Sitometria" (1982) discusses some of the difficulties in precision. Also wide variance by class - the wealthier you were, the less bread-heavy, probably.
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