As I was reading this, one phrase kept ringing in the back of my mind like a bell: bread and circuses.
Or perhaps to put a finer point on it, Gracchus' astute observation in the film Gladiator: "The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the Senate, it's the sand of the Colosseum. He'll bring them death and they will love him for it."
As I was reading this, one phrase kept ringing in the back of my mind like a bell: bread and circuses.
Or perhaps to put a finer point on it, Gracchus' astute observation in the film Gladiator: "The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the Senate, it's the sand of the Colosseum. He'll bring them death and they will love him for it."