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the ruins of Pompei suggest a highly
cultured and civilized
society but is that the whole
story The historian tacitus describes an
event that occurred at the city's
Amphitheater pompei's Amphitheater is
one of the oldest stone-built
amphitheaters in the Roman World it had
a 20,000 spectator
capacity gladiatorial games were an
essential part of Roman Life the people
that are fighting in the Arenas they are
by and large enslaved
people they're at the bottom of the
social scale but at the same time these
guys here in the arena they could be
Superstars they could become
celebrities so there's a lot of
complexities involved in the idea of
slavery in the ancient
world the amphitheater was not just
meant to hold spectacles for the
pompeians but it also attracted
Spectators from the neighboring
towns but in the year 59 the violence
isn't limited to the
arena tacitus recounts how tensions
between pomps and a nearby rival
settlement called
nucara led to a a brutal fight that
broke out in the
stands what happens is the taunts lead
to Stone throwing and ultimately people
start drawing the swords and they're
fighting in the stands and there's
Bloodshed there's
Slaughter at the national archaeological
Museum of Naples a 2,000-year-old fresco
provides a contemporary account of the
event revealing that the clash between
the fans escalated into a Citywide
Riot the relatives of the deceased go to
Rome itself and beseech the emperor to
intervene he turns it over to the Senate
and the cils then get involved and say
no more Gladiator games in this venue
for 10 years