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What attitudes towards the roman games did the ancient writers express? How would you account for their difference and similarities between these attitudes?
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... What attitudes towards the roman games did the ancient writers express? How would you account for their difference and similarities between these attitudes? The attitudes towards the Roman games articulated by the ancient writers varied to a great extent between the diverse individuals. There were those individuals who enjoyed the games, and looked at them as an expression of Roman culture and all that embodied it. The games were lessons in the Roman virtues of strength and stamina while displaying the bravery and skill personified by the Romans. On the other hand there were also those individuals who looked at the games in a different light. Those individuals felt the games were a sure path to the destruction of the very moral fiber that binds out society to humanity. Martial eludes to the fact that women fought in the arena, something that one might have
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