TheGames (Munera)
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- The
Games (Munera)
- Morning - Animals
- Starts with a mock Gladiator fight
- Exotic animals - from North Africa & the Near East
- Animals performed and fought each other.
- Wild beast hunts (venationes) involved the bestiarus
- Opening games 80CE 9000 animals were slaughtered in 100 days
- Purpose was to show the power of Rome over nature & how far the Empire stretched
- Midday - executions of criminals
- All ages & both sexes executed by being ‘ condemned to the beasts’
- Some executions re-enact myths like the tale of Orpheus or being burnt to death on a funeral pyre like Hercules.
- Some
criminals were called upon as ‘midday gladiators’
- One was armed the other was not, once the armed criminal was victorious he was disarmed & became the next victim
- Seneca remarked, ‘ I was bitterly disappointed… It was really mere butchery’
- Afternoon – Gladiator show
- A parade of gladiators & orchestras, dressed in purple & gold cloaks
- Many betted on the games even though it was illegal
- A gladiator was taught to face death by not pleading or crying out.
- Evidence suggests that one in five gladiators were killed.
- Morning - Animals
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