CLA160H1 Midterm: CLA 387 - Midterm Study Sheet
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Romans: earliest description is from homer"s iliad in the context of the funeral games for. A private venue, built so the emperors could practise their driving skills: circuses were favored locations for spectacles of judicial execution, the largest roman circus was the circus maximus in rome, in the valley between the. Palatine and aventine hills: the location of many cults and the oldest recorded games. The consualia, associated with the rape of the sabine women: not much to the structure until the 2nd century bc when it started to acquire other more definite facilities. The factiones were essentially companies under the emperor"s patronage, which supplied teams to the magistrates giving the games and generated revenue from the prize money: the stables (stabulae) for each of these teams were located in the. The race was at least 3 miles in length, requiring huge stamina and strength on the part of both the horses and the charioteers.
