Tom Paine 1949
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The OP creator has gotten crazier and crazier, which is certainly his God-given right. I’m with Rye Catcher in enjoying mocking him, but it is not nice to make fun of demented old men (I’m half there myself!).
Anyway I propose to nominate this as the most wildly curmudgeonly (just love that word!) OP of the month.
I also want to thank Doc7505 for his succinct analysis of the problem:
Or was too much bread given to the rowdy citizens of Rome, after they were driven off their own land and replaced by conquered foreign slaves on the latidundia outside the city?
Damn, how much did a ticket cost to a gladiatorial match anyway? Towards the end, centuries after the army of Spartacus was defeated, when the rich tired of, or just couldn’t anymore afford, the upkeep of decent gladiators and giving out all that free bread, I suppose they economized somewhat by throwing ... undernourished Jews & Christians to the lions.
I suppose those Jewish sicario communists and especially those Christian passivist snowflakes couldn’t fight for shit. Only big barbarian Gauls were worth a damn in the arena in those days — sort of like today’s big African-American football players.
Anyway I liked this link provided by the aforementioned Doc7505 :
Anyway I propose to nominate this as the most wildly curmudgeonly (just love that word!) OP of the month.
I also want to thank Doc7505 for his succinct analysis of the problem:
Presumably the Roman aristocrats should never have given the gladiators so much bread. Perhaps it made them too fat to fight?Politics has destroyed professional sports... Democrats has reverted to the Roman games and giving them bread...
Or was too much bread given to the rowdy citizens of Rome, after they were driven off their own land and replaced by conquered foreign slaves on the latidundia outside the city?
Damn, how much did a ticket cost to a gladiatorial match anyway? Towards the end, centuries after the army of Spartacus was defeated, when the rich tired of, or just couldn’t anymore afford, the upkeep of decent gladiators and giving out all that free bread, I suppose they economized somewhat by throwing ... undernourished Jews & Christians to the lions.
I suppose those Jewish sicario communists and especially those Christian passivist snowflakes couldn’t fight for shit. Only big barbarian Gauls were worth a damn in the arena in those days — sort of like today’s big African-American football players.
Anyway I liked this link provided by the aforementioned Doc7505 :
Roman Gladiators: How They Compare to Modern Sporting Heroes
As you know from reading our earlier blog post in January, Super Bowl XLVII and the Superstars of Ancient Rome had a lot in common with today’s American football stars. There are so many intriguing…
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