Gladiator

We already know Harrek the Whitebear, later Great King of Laskal was once a Gladiator of Lunar Empire.
http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/gladiator.html

But when the Empire has first invented Roman Style Bread and Circus? Can I find hints in ILH series? (I don't have ILH-1 yet.)

"Only Seneca criticized hard the bloody games of Roman Coliseum among of his
contemporary intelligentias from the point of a sort of humanism."

[Middle English, from Latin gladiator, from gladius, sword, of Celtic origin.]
Maybe RW speculation is useful for analysis, and some of you who want to play gladiators in Lunar Empire.....
http://www.mclink.it/n/citrag/roma/doc/civil/ecv_026.htm

"Bread and Circus...is an entertainment for poor populace who lost almost
all of privilege as inheritors of Old Time City Republic Citizens, before Emperors changed the system of SPQR into Empire of Fact."

At the Funeral of Emperor Urivairinus: Contest over Death Rites (GROY p.29) maybe it is similar to one scene of "Iliad" (Funeral of Patruclus), but I guess at that age, it was purely ceremonial and for divinity, not for entertainment of populace.....

Nysalor Empire: Lords of Terror p.17
<<In order to honor those who insisted upon the warrior elite, he [Nysalor] reinstituted the ancient Blood Games with Spectators.>>

I think Lunars reinstituted Bloody Games as an inheritor of Bright Empire. I don't think Ordanestyu-style Puritanism tolerate Roman Style luxurious Circus....

I can refer "Chariot Race" Greg Stafford's Fragment for the historical change from War machine through Ceremonial vehicle, into one of the Circus.... But when the Empire began to build gigantic Coliseum or Racetrack?

I am curious about the day before Lunars.

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