Left-handedness in Rome

by anchaescastilla

Hello, awesome community! I'm a long time fan/lurker, this is my first post and I'm so excited!

I've read loads of stuff on Rome and I've never seen left-handedness mentioned, even once. Given how important physical integrity was for the elites (Justin II's nose seems to be a huge exception) and specially, the dominance of right hand oriented clothing in the elites (toga, claims) and, I'm guessing, in military performance and training, how was left-handedness viewed during the centuries? Did it change overtime, maybe after Christianity was imposed? More generally, do we have any specific lefty oriented anecdote, testimony, opinion or something that might amuse me and not make me feel like we lefties were left out of history?

Thanks :)

LegalAction

Hi! I wrote a bit about sometime lefty M. Sergius Silus here. Maybe that will be of interest until someone writes up something about lefties in general.