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Pompey's Greatest Show on Earth
- whakim 2y agoLooks like there's a mistake here - it was Juvenal, not Horace, who coined the phrase "bread and circuses." While we're at it, Juvenal's point was not that the provision of bread and circuses was detrimental to the Roman people, but rather that Romans had been reduced (a process in which they were partially culpable) from being able to exercise their votes to only hoping for "bread and circuses."
- basemi 2y agoTIL that these are different things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii