🔁Mario Nawfal:
🇬🇷ANCIENT GREEKS HAD AUDITORIUMS COOLER THAN YOUR SCHOOL, AND THEY BUILT ONE IN SICILY 2,200 YEARS AGO
Guess what archaeologists just found in Sicily? A Greek auditorium from 580 BCE—basically, an ancient TED Talk arena with fewer microphones and way more togas.
It sat 200 people (no, not bleachers—stone seats like real intellectuals use) and was part of a gym complex where Greeks flexed both brain and biceps. You’d go there to learn philosophy and run a 200-meter dash.
Imagine if your gym class included Plato and pool dives.
This mega-find in Agrigento includes a racetrack, a massive swimming pool, and inscriptions from when Rome took over but the Greeks were like, “Yeah, we’re still running the show, thanks.”
TL;DR: The Greeks were schooling people—literally and figuratively—way before it was cool. And this discovery just reminded us they were living that high-IQ, high-cardio lifestyle 2,000 years before your school even thought of building an auditorium.
Source: GB News
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/...
🇬🇷ANCIENT GREEKS HAD AUDITORIUMS COOLER THAN YOUR SCHOOL, AND THEY BUILT ONE IN SICILY 2,200 YEARS AGO
Guess what archaeologists just found in Sicily? A Greek auditorium from 580 BCE—basically, an ancient TED Talk arena with fewer microphones and way more togas.
It sat 200 people (no, not bleachers—stone seats like real intellectuals use) and was part of a gym complex where Greeks flexed both brain and biceps. You’d go there to learn philosophy and run a 200-meter dash.
Imagine if your gym class included Plato and pool dives.
This mega-find in Agrigento includes a racetrack, a massive swimming pool, and inscriptions from when Rome took over but the Greeks were like, “Yeah, we’re still running the show, thanks.”
TL;DR: The Greeks were schooling people—literally and figuratively—way before it was cool. And this discovery just reminded us they were living that high-IQ, high-cardio lifestyle 2,000 years before your school even thought of building an auditorium.
Source: GB News
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/...
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