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Zombie@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Caesar urges Colosseum to make Circuses final free to watch
Context:
Roman practice of providing free wheat to Roman citizens (the Annona) as well as costly circus games and other forms of entertainment as a means of gaining political power. In much modern literature, this represents the Annona as a “briberous and corrupting attempt of the Roman emperors to cover up the fact that they were selfish and incompetent tyrants”.[8]