Bread and circus and silencing the people.
Bread and circus a spectacle in itself and also a major
tactic of distraction. Reading about this I found a lot of interesting facts
about what was considered a bread and circus tactic. An interesting factor of
bread and circus were the bathhouses. In ancient roman times the roman
government opened up several hot springs in order for all people of Rome to
bathe. With these opening social interaction began to grow and flourish even
more than it was before.
With the main goal of the government was to keep the peace
and the rebellious silent entertainment and leisure took a huge role in the
lives of romans. Concentrating so much on spectacle, entertainment they gave
the pleasures of life more focus to maintain stability. With this it made it
particularly harder for citizens to make reason to complain about the hidden
troubles of the empire.
Researching more about these tactics the questions come up
of did the romans concentration on leisure lead to their demise? From worrying
about stability within the state they didn’t strongly focus on the people
outside of the empire. As to be talked about in our presentation the romans are
eventually overthrown by people they first allied but thought lower than them.
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