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Pompey's Greatest Show on Earth

Pompey's Greatest Show on Earth

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·March 6, 2025

whakim

Looks 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."