Professor of Medieval History, Concordia U, Montreal. Spend most waking hours thinking about London riots early 16thc., Dutch immigrants, sex, gender, and the like. Knitster. She/her.
Shannon McSheffrey
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This is insane
Augustus loved the spectacle of watching boxing 🥊 matches & regular Romans engaged in street fighting (Suet. Aug. 45.2). He didn’t set up a gauche UFC arena but it reminds us: men who leave warfare to others often enjoy watching others fight for their benefit—on a battlefield or in an amphitheater.
Shannon McSheffrey
Sarah E. Bond
Unable to defeat the barbarians at the border, the emperor directed the people‘s gaze to a bloody spectacle with gladiators.
Historians dated the empire’s decline already before, but the moment still held special symbolic importance.
Well good thing there wasn’t a Stanley Cup parade on Saint-Catherine street this summer 😅
Every single person in that picture is a vile racist fascist, no exceptions, no "legitimate concerns". Every single one. And they should be made to feel utterly ashamed to ever show their faces in public again
