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Food, Drink, the Baths, and Gambling
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Sites on the social life of antiquity focusing on food, drink, gambling, and the baths.

The Baths
Where Romans went to socialize, relax, heal, and get clean.

Beer
Grain as bread and as fermented beverage was important to the ancients and may have had a role in the development of agriculture.

Food
Eating and cooking reveal mundane details of ancient daily life.

Wine
Wine, drinking, and grape culture (viticulture) were important as civilization progressed.

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