Gladiator Arena - Bread, Blood & Power: How Emperors Weaponized the Games

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Gladiator Arena - Bread, Blood & Power: How Emperors Weaponized the Games

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Host Jack Maddox explores how Roman emperors weaponized gladiatorial games as political propaganda, examining Trajan's 123-day spectacle featuring 10,000 gladiators and 11,000 slaughtered animals. The episode traces how funeral rites became state-sponsored entertainment, revealing the Colosseum as a calculated tool for social control, imperial power projection, and population management through "bread and circuses."

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