CLAS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Aventine Hill, Gladiator, Chariot Racing
16 Nov 2018
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Designed for a large audience and are in an urban context. Financed by the elites (local elites in small towns) and then the emperor starts to finance the games. People have described this as state sanctioned murder. There is evidence of female gladiators, they use the same armour and weapons as male gladiators. To interpret them in their context without demonizing them. To understand what these games tell us about daily life of the ancient romans and their interactions. Aventine hill is where the common people lived. By the imperial period, the palatine is where the emperor had his residences. The space is incrementally monumentalized over the late republic and early empire. There was the use of the euripus which was the dividing barriers in the middle - in the 2nd century bce. Augustus adds in statues and alters and an obelisque when. The statues of the gods are added in.
