He was born in Oak Park, IL
Hercules was not in the civil war
Education in ancient<span> Rome progressed from an informal, familial system of education in the early Republic to a tuition-based system during the </span>late<span>Republic and the Empire. The Roman education system was based on the Greek system – and many of the private tutors in the Roman system were Greek slaves or freedmen.</span>
As a Jew myself, I had heard (not knowing for sure if it’s factual) that Jews who ate Kosher food did not get the Bubonic plague. Presumably, this was due to the fact that pork carried the virus of this particular plague. It also might have accounted for the fact that non-Jews were suspicious of why the Jews were not as affected.
