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Disability in the Ancient World

You're Dead to Me

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The Last Leg and Wheeled Mobility Devices

I'm aware of ancient wheelchairs or wheeled mobility devices in the very late period, what we'd call late antiquity, about 1500 years ago. I found literary references and artistic depictions of children using wheeled walking frames but no evidence of adults doing likewise at that time. We also don't have the wheelbarrow in class plant equity for the same reason that it's just not necessary when you've got labour. Rosie would eat a kebab with a God any day of the week. As long as you were spending it at the Temple, yeah. Absolutely. You have to, if you're going to have an incubation ritual and commune with the God. Great.

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