If you were lucky, you’d get the lion’s share
I mean if you back to the Greeks and Roman’s, they also had some big payouts for sporting events.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
I mean if you back to the Greeks and Roman’s, they also had some big payouts for sporting events.
If you were lucky, you’d get the lion’s share
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@piefed.world 4 hours ago
They used those events for military readiness. The skills that the athletes trained for were the same ones needed by soldiers.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Gladiators were not soldiers. Some were the equivalent of American Wrestling stars.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@piefed.world 2 hours ago
I was thinking more about Olympians. The Romans had a standing army so they didn’t need that sort of thing as much.