Personal Blog #2
A lot of my frustrations have been navigating blogger for the past week. I had no idea that even though I had put my personal blog #1 under my personal page AND if you go to edit the page you can see the blog however when I go to view the page it just linked back to the home page. I tried to delete the page and remake it. I'll have to find this out because this is getting really annoying and distracting me from the research I am doing. Speaking of the research I am doing, I had to change my entire direction of my personal research. I was given the task of researching Seneca and Platus, two Roman playwrights in my mind just to fill that part of the rubric where we focus on a certain playwright. I was not 100 percent on board to research it because I felt like it was going in the opposite direction of all the arguments we were putting out, but I didn't argue because there really wasn't much else. When talking to Will this week he told us to scrap all of our research regarding the playwrights which means I had to start from square one. I just took on the imperial games because we didn't really cover that and it was really the only thing left for me to do.
Although changing the direction though frustrating has led me to some great sources. I picked up a book called Blood in the Arena: The Spectacle of Roman Power. I found the following quotation:
“The simplest form was the exhibition of wild or unusual animals/ Once captured, many animals capable of being trained to do interesting tricks, which were a source of capable of being trained to do interesting tricks….Eventually the Roman taste for bloody exotica overshadowed the milder types of animal exhibitions as thousands of animals met their deaths in combat during the Imperial period.”
I found this personally interesting because although it may not be a showing of power and strength of the Roman Empire, but the use of animals shows a different side of the spectacle. The flashiness of the animals says to me personally that the Roman Empire was saying "Look at how extravagant we are! We can get these exotic animals, as many as you can imagine, and just show how great we are for getting them to you." Not to mention there was a materialistic look at the animals since they used these beautiful exotic animals as gladiators as well sending them to their deaths.
Although changing the direction though frustrating has led me to some great sources. I picked up a book called Blood in the Arena: The Spectacle of Roman Power. I found the following quotation:
“The simplest form was the exhibition of wild or unusual animals/ Once captured, many animals capable of being trained to do interesting tricks, which were a source of capable of being trained to do interesting tricks….Eventually the Roman taste for bloody exotica overshadowed the milder types of animal exhibitions as thousands of animals met their deaths in combat during the Imperial period.”
I found this personally interesting because although it may not be a showing of power and strength of the Roman Empire, but the use of animals shows a different side of the spectacle. The flashiness of the animals says to me personally that the Roman Empire was saying "Look at how extravagant we are! We can get these exotic animals, as many as you can imagine, and just show how great we are for getting them to you." Not to mention there was a materialistic look at the animals since they used these beautiful exotic animals as gladiators as well sending them to their deaths.
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