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Konstantine Panegyres/The Conversation These days when you see people exercising, they’re usually also listening to music, whether they’re at the gym, or out jogging on the street. It makes sense, as studies have shown listening to music can help you get the most out of a workout. Somehow the ancient Greeks and Romans knew this too, long before modern science was there to back it. A More Than 2,000-year-old Habit In his oration To the People of Alexandria, the Greek writer Dio Chrysostom (40-110 AD) complained about a phenomenon he saw all the time. Dio wrote people loved to listen to music in their daily activities. According to him, music could be found in the courtroom, in the lecture theatre