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Konstantine Panegyres, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia

How to live a long and healthy life, according to the ancients

Tyler Bell/Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA

Just like in the modern world, people in ancient times wanted to know how to live a long and healthy life.

Greeks and Romans heard fantastic tales of far-away peoples living to well beyond 100.

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