Classical Studies 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Vomitorium, Social Control, Winter Solstice

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2300
• Professor: David Lamari

Document Summary

Lecture 18: horses bones are fragile and if they fall down they will most likely break something and have to be put down. This is why there are so many horse tombstones for charioteer horses: we see that they race 100-200 times so this tells us that chariot racing was no so lethal if they could race this much. It is usually p(cid:396)edete(cid:396)(cid:373)i(cid:374)ed (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h o(cid:374)e of the (cid:858)tea(cid:373)ed(cid:859) (cid:272)ha(cid:396)iotee(cid:396)s (cid:449)ill (cid:449)i(cid:374) a(cid:374)d (cid:449)ho (cid:449)ill (cid:271)e the (cid:271)locker who lets the other one win. Amphitheatre (roman) versus theatre (greek: roman amphitheaters are oval shaped, greek theatres are semi-circular (cid:862)a(cid:396)e(cid:374)a(cid:863) = (cid:374)i(cid:272)k(cid:374)a(cid:373)e fo(cid:396) a(cid:373)phitheate(cid:396) (cid:449)as a(cid:396)e(cid:374)a (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h is the o(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:449)o(cid:396)d fo(cid:396) sa(cid:374)d. The sand was significant because it helped to soak up the blood and bodily fluids. Pompeii, 70 bc; 1st at rome, 29 bc, 40 years after pompeii: roman custom to stage gladiators in roman forum. Up until they built a permanent one, this is where the events happened.