Those who attended these different kinds of ceremonies were rewarded with a peculiar system of distribution such as a ration of wheat, oil, and vine which eventually was turned into bread. ... In this manner, the plays, the fake ceremonies, the gladiators, the fake laughs, the false happiness, the well built naked athletes, were all the powerful instruments that rulers used in order to enslave their kindred citizens. ...

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Caligula started importing exotic animals from all over the empire for shows and ceremonies: lions, tigers, bears and elephants (Kennedy). At one of the ceremonies that Caligula held, he had 400 bears slaughtered (Barret 69). ...

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