Was the supposedly vegan diet of the Roman gladiators ever glamourised as masculine and tough among the spectators and society generally?

by sumant28

Follow up questions:

  • To what extent did spectators of fights know about the diet of the gladiators? Was it emulated at all in the same way people might read a muscle magazine today and recreate a diet of a bodybuilder they like?

  • How different was the standard Roman diet different to the diet of the gladiators?

  • Do we have an accurate idea of how muscular the gladiators actually were apart from possibly embellished depictions?

venessa427

I've never heard that they were vegan. Is there a primary source that is cited for that?