HIST 215 Lecture 10: HIST 215 W5L10
28 Mar 2017
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Hist 215 (10) games and the roman empire - lecture outline. Aediles: magistrates responsible for public buildings and festivals, including games. He owned gladiators in capua and planned spectacular munus his enemies tried to limit the extravagance passing the law that limited the numbers of gladiators one could come into rome. 65bce ludi (mahoney, 74-75: feared his ambition versus danger of gladiators, the bill limited number of gladiator pairs a private individual could keep to. In 52 bce cicero defended one such boss who had his own personal army of gladiators: milo on a murder charge. Milo gladiators had killed cicero"s enemy claudius and many gladiators in a street fight: claudius and his gladiators supposedly provoked the attack, saved him but milo got exiled. 49bce rubicon: one year later, 49 bce he passes rubicon river in the north with army, and takes control of rome and starts end of roman republic.
