Bread and Circuses: What everyone gets wrong | Roman History

Описание: Popular discourse about the games and grain dole of Ancient Rome are riddled with anachronisms, but what was the purpose behind it? Was it really a means to distract the masses, or was there something more to it?

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:32 Juvenal
01:56 Popular Misconceptions
03:51 Imperial Ideology
05:42 Suetonius
07:31 Bread
10:10 Conclusion