> They absolutely would have been able to fund that size of show Perhaps collectively? The Colosseum killed what, order 1k ppl/yr? Peak slave trade through G

> They absolutely would have been able to fund that size of show Perhaps collectively? The Colosseum killed what, order 1k ppl/yr? Peak slave trade through Genoa and Venice each seems to be mid-to-low order 1k ppl/yr?[1] And that's with women and children being common. Even Venice had a population an order of magnitude down from peak Rome - they'd all fit in the Circus Maximus. And its total slave population was two orders down, at a few thousand, majority women. So I don't quite see those cities individually being able to even afford the dead, let alone the rest of it. There looks a gap of maybe one or two orders of magnitude? [1] https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8610XH4 https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8610XH4 /The Black Sea Slave Population/