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RE: Ask A Historian

May 27, 2015 at 3:32 pm

Check out the commentary of Seneca on first century "games."

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/gladiators.htm

Quote:The Roman philosopher Seneca took a dim view of gladiatorial contests and the spectacle that accompanied them. Interestingly, his criticism is not based on revulsion at the butchery he witnesses, but because the display is boring and therefore unworthy of the attention of a well-reasoned man. In a letter to a friend, he describes what he saw in the arena during the reign of Emperor Caligula:

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