HIST 215 Lecture 15: HIST 215 W8L15
28 Mar 2017
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Hist 215 (15) medieval spectacles and monk athletes - lecture outline. = good thing): value of watching men kill each other, helps people to be strong because get used to violence. 404 games abolished: but, bloody battles continued until emperor honorius enforced abolition in 404. 404 honorius visits rome - telemachus: the last martyr: 79 years of combats: 404: honorius left constantinople and visited rome . Story was later made more dramatic, in 16th century: during height of protesntism and. Catholicism, lots of propaganda, one tradition says that a gladiator stabs telemachus and site of dead monk truned people against games. 18th century: telemachus stands up and yells at audience to stop worshipping idols and sacrificing to pagan gods, roman prefix loses temper and orders gladiator to execute them. Whether story true were no more gladiatorial combats, officially in coliseum or anywhere else in rome after 404. Although ended gladiator spectacles, honorius sported wild beasts hunts and wrestling competitions.
