Sculpt!

For our presentation we intend to do a power point presentation covering our topic Ancient Roman spectacle.  Members of our group will discuss certain movements of spectacle during ancient roman times and we will then connect them to the politics of that time. Our presentation will mainly focus on the political connection and influence roman government had on spectacle. With in this presentation will cover the topics bread and circus, imperial games, pax romana and what control the Roman Empire had over these moments in history.  To avoid drowning our audience in information we plan to cover the main ideas of the spectacle movements and bring more focus on the political connection they have. After rethinking our format we have removed the modern day correlation of the presentation to help communicate our idea in a clear manner.

 With the increase of economic down fall and the threat of foreign invaders roman government used specific tactics to keep their society calmed and controlled, spectacle being a specific one. With entertainment taking importance in the lives of romans, politicians utilized imperial games making gladiators from both foreign and domestic prisoners while also feeding the poor during events creating the term bread and circus. These two are tactics to both blind and calm society from any political or economic issues that were happening. Knowing this, it can be proven that roman government had great involvement in the mechanics of ancient roman spectacle.