What It Was Like to Be Homeless in Ancient Greece | History For Sleep

122 min • 3 augusti 2025

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You’re homeless in ancient Athens — not a philosopher, not a warrior, just another hungry body fading into the marble backdrop. No scrolls will record your name. No statues will remember your face. As the temples rise and the plays unfold, you rot quietly in the sun, swatting flies and swallowing shame. This isn’t the Greece of legends. It’s the Greece of sores, hunger, and indifference — where beauty and cruelty walk hand in hand.

Tonight’s story drifts through the shadows of the Classical world, where even civilization’s crown jewel left its most vulnerable to die in the alleys behind the temples. If you’re still listening when the marble fades to night, thank you for remembering the forgotten.

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