"Since we can not sell their votes, he, who once led the world its power, its logo and its legions, has become a degenerate people and only wish, with a greedy anxiety, two things: bread and games. "
Because of their obvious similarities, it is extremely easy to identify some of the phenomena that proliferated in ancient Rome with some very current. In the case of the munera or combat between gladiators, it was competitive events taking place in large venues with capacity for thousands of spectators, like the modern stadium, featuring a true idol of the masses which aroused the admiration of men, the emulation youth and the desire of women. Been depicted in countless everyday items like oil lamps or perfume bottles, a precursor of the current merchandising and rough in many street graffiti. His exploits were recounted by poets of the stature of the Horace, and even emperors megalomaniacs like Caligula or Commodus, tried to imitate them in the sand ...
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Because of their obvious similarities, it is extremely easy to identify some of the phenomena that proliferated in ancient Rome with some very current. In the case of the munera or combat between gladiators, it was competitive events taking place in large venues with capacity for thousands of spectators, like the modern stadium, featuring a true idol of the masses which aroused the admiration of men, the emulation youth and the desire of women. Been depicted in countless everyday items like oil lamps or perfume bottles, a precursor of the current merchandising and rough in many street graffiti. His exploits were recounted by poets of the stature of the Horace, and even emperors megalomaniacs like Caligula or Commodus, tried to imitate them in the sand ...
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Article written for Armatura, academia weapons.
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