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It is also funny to note that many other roman arena and theater are still used today for shows. From concert to bull fighting.
by greatpatton 6y ago
It is also funny to note that many other roman arena and theater are still used today for shows. From concert to bull fighting.
- Thorrez 6y agoIn high school my track team once ran around the Circus Maximus for practice.
- duxup 6y agoI attended a concert at one in Orange: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Theatre_of_Orange https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Theatre_of_Orange I wondered if emperor Augustus could imagine his statue would overlook such an event centuries later.
- bamboleo 6y agoOne must note * across Europe. No bullfighting in Italy.
- greatpatton 6y agoAnd in Switzerland this is Swiss Cow fighting (combat de Reines)
- wdb 6y agoNote that's two cows fighting one other
- hertzrat 6y agoI didn’t realize that bull fighting happened in Italy, I thought it was an unfortunate Spanish thing
- lou1306 6y agoTauromachy (bullfighting) is a very ancient ritual: the spanish one is just one of its most recent formalisation. Venationes (hunting games) were common practice in Rome. The picture of gladiators fighting lions in the Colosseum is iconic, but bulls were also used.
- usrusr 6y agoI wonder wether the whole Matador thing is a direct-line descendant leftover of the games in Roman time Iberian arenas or if there have been discontinuities and reinventions along the way.
- riffraff 6y agoIt's also older than Rome, there are plenty of Minoan era representations of bullfighting (leaping, but that's still a tradition in France and Spain, too). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull-leaping https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull-leaping
- orange_tee 6y agoI think he means Roman era amphitheatres in Spain.