Gladiatorial combat both intrigued and enthused the Roman populace. ... One result of the rise in popularity of the spectacles during the Roman Republic was the encroachment of politics into the games. Those families that were vying for high political office within the Republic immediately saw the benefit of staging grand spectacles as a means of garnering high public opinion and votes. ... As the Republic began to succumb to internal political strife, the unwritten rule stating that the games were to be part of the funerary proceedings of an important Roman figure were circumvented by the man...

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His achievements in the retrieval of Greek and Roman traditions, including rhetoric, and his attempts to follow classical style lead to the movement itself (Humanism: Italy" 2). ... It was during this expulsion that he wrote The Prince, which not only was based on previous Roman political examples, but it combined some humanistic ideals into his innovatory view of the state. ... Neoplatonism during the Renaissance was a revival of Platonism, a dualistic philosophy based on Plato's Republic. ...

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