ROMAN

AMUSEMENT

STEINER RÁHEL 10.C

The Big City offered entertainment possibilities

Eating: form of entertainment

NOBLES: lots of money on FEASTS (chatted and listened to music)

At meals: - women and children ate separately - first just men attended (1st c. BC) later ladies could also appear

POOR PEOPLE: eating turned into entertainment when victorious commander and politicians treated them to a meal

Once Augustus entertained 320.000 citizens

CIRCUS GAMES: had big crowds

HORSE RACES

WAR GAMES

GLADIATOR BATTLES: most amusement

TRIUMPH: great spectacle started: from the Mars field then marched to the Circus Maximus then turned to the Via Sacra which led to the Forum. Finally to the temple of Jupiter

Sports and Bathing: Lots of training halls, baths and wresting arenas

Nobles, Poor People and Slaves appeared

Theatres: - entertainment for high level-Greek and Latin authors

First Arena Theatre:- 55 BC built by Pompey - 10.000 people

Libraries:first poor supplies-first just Private Libraries later Public Libraries (Augustus)

Asinius Pollio established the first Library

-In Forum Trajan: most significant library-Minerva: protection of libraries (statues)

Philosopher and Rhetorical Debates : - of educated people- most high-raking

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