The Eternal City: A History of Rome
by Ferdinand Addis · 6 Nov 2018
seemed to exist almost as parasites; the surplus of the countryside was creamed off by urban elites who in turn sustained the urban poor with bread and circuses. If cities were parasites, Rome was the arch-parasite, squatting vast and useless on its seven hills, with its roots sunk into the flesh of
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by Christian Wolmar · 30 Sep 2009 · 447pp · 126,219 words
., p. 145. 12 House of Commons, 31 March 1931. 13 Financial News, 14 March 1931. 14 Donoghue and Jones, p. 145. 15 Jonathan Glancey, London bread and circuses, Verso, 2001, p. 38. 16 Indeed, this lack of integration still causes problems today. When Transport for London introduced the Oyster card in 2004, it
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King’s Cross Fire, HMSO 1988, Cm 499. Clive Foxell, The story of the Met and GC joint line, self-published, 2001. Jonathan Glancey, London, Bread and Circuses, Verso, 2001. John Glover, London’s Underground, the world’s premier underground system, Ian Allan, 1999 (ninth edition). John Glover, Principles of London Underground Operations
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, any more than the Government could deliver football champions, or chart-topping musicians? This was a not very exciting, indeed an entirely bloodless version of bread and circuses, and in the light of the condescending, ill-conceived, and vastly over-budget nature of the majority of the Dome’s content, for anybody who
The City on the Thames
by Simon Jenkins · 31 Aug 2020
£13 billion in exports, an absurd figure. But there was no question a pride surged over London that summer, as Nero’s bargain held, of ‘bread and circuses’ for public contentment. London 2012 saw a curious inversion of London’s traditional modesty. Housing crisis – or not A sense of suspended hysteria followed the
Europe: A History
by Norman Davies · 1 Jan 1996
, aqueducts, baths, theatres, temples, monuments—and by the growth of merchant, artisan, and proletarian classes. The city mob—constantly pacified, in Juvenal’s words, ‘through bread and circuses’, panem et circenses, became a vital social factor. In the countryside, the villas of local dignitaries stood out above the toiling mass of slaves who
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would seem, was only a secondary preoccupation for successful generals. LUDI THE people who have conquered the world’, wrote Juvenal, ‘now have only two interests—bread and circuses.’ ‘The art of conversation is dead!’ exclaimed Seneca. ‘Can no one today talk of anything else than charioteers?’ The Ludi or ‘Games’ had become a
Italy
by Damien Simonis · 31 Jul 2010
http://ospiti.cilea.it/music/entrance.htm. * * * Theatre & Dance Entertainment has been not a privilege but a right in Italy ever since Rome promised citizens ‘bread and circus’ (food and entertainment). Travelling Commedia dell’Arte troupes spread the antics of Pulcinella (aka Punch of Punch and Judy fame) and friends across Italy starting
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by Gardner Dozois · 23 Jun 2009 · 1,263pp · 371,402 words
19. Tony Pi, “Aesop’s Last Fable,” On Spec, Spring. Rachel Pollack, “Immortal Snake,” F&SF, May. Steven Popkes, “Another Perfect Day,” F&SF, August. ———, “Bread and Circus,” F&SF, February. Tim Powers, “The Hour of Babel,” Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy. Tim Pratt, “The Frozen One,” Lone Star Stories, February. ———, “The River
Rome
by Lonely Planet
. Writing in the 1st century AD, he combined an acute mind with a cutting pen, famously scorning the masses as being interested in nothing but ‘bread and circuses’. Ancient Histories The two major historians of the period were Livy (59 BC−AD 17) and Tacitus (c 56−116). Although both wrote in the
Culture & Empire: Digital Revolution
by Pieter Hintjens · 11 Mar 2013 · 349pp · 114,038 words
who send nude pictures of themselves as sex offenders, with life-long consequences, does not protect anyone. We are often so afraid of losing our bread and circuses and so quick to fear and hate others that we're ready to give up our neighbors without a struggle. We often clap as authorities
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reduce our freedoms tends to be seen as paranoid. However, while wealth and freedom correlate, full fridges and streaming TV shows do not equal freedom. Bread and circuses is a classic way to appease the people without giving them real freedom. We are so good at self-deceit, rationalization, and maintaining the sense
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peers. Inside every calm, ordinary person sits a little implacable demon, able to come to life, grow and take charge if the situation demands it. Bread and circuses. The criminals inside the ring, fighting the wild animals, and the spectators outside, passively watching. That was the way the establishment hoped the Internet would
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is always a price, kid, especially for success.” Jimi took his foot off the desktop. “The whole crackdown on the Gaiists is just crap. A bread-and-circus move because the North American Alliance…” Aman held up a hand. “Good thing you don’t write it on your head in light,” he said
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