NOV. 16:  SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN THE ROMAN PRINCIPATE

A boy who loved his mother (before he killed her):  Nero and Agrippina

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Slavery:

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Party Time:  slaves pouring wine

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Roman "decadence" in modern imagination:  TOGA!

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Imperial Decorum:  an emperor should look like this (Marcus Aurelius)...

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...and not like this (Caracalla):

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Bread and Circuses:  the Colosseum

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Mass entertainment:  the chariot races

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Violence and the Entertainment Industry:  the Gladiator

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Rome gets Tough on Crime, and Amuses the Masses:  damnatio ad bestias

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Violence and the Entertainment Industry:  more gladiators

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An emperor dressed for the games:  Commodus as Hercules

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Animals get some, too:  a beast-hunt

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"Live Free or Die":  Roman fascination with "honorable death", even for barbarian enemies:

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