This week on the blog: Bread and Circuses! We look at both the context of the original line where this common phrase comes from and also assess its meaning: do the common understandings of it (decline! luxury! control!) fit with either Juvenal's meaning or Roman history?
https://acoup.blog/2024/12/20/collections-on-bread-and-circuses/
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