omans watched these entertainments to see violence and death, the same can be said about the people of the 'modern world'. There is only one reason that people watch boxing - to see people getting hurt, and the 'highlights' of the motor racing are always the spectacular crashes.Therefore, the Romans were no more violent as a society than our own. We have the same sort of entertainment and enjoy the same violent things. I think that it is very unfair to say that the Romans were obsessed with violence when we ourselves partake in the same sort of things they did.BibliographyAncient SourcesPlutarch, The Fall of the Roman Empire, Penguin Books, Middlesex, England, 1972Modern SourcesP Mantin & R Pulley, The Roman World: From Republic to Empire, Cambridge University Press, England, 1992KR Bradley, Slavery and Rebellion in the Roman World, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, 1989Longman Dictionary of the English Languages, WM Clowes Ltd., Beccles & London, England, 1984REC Burrell, The Romans and Their World, A.Wheaton & Co., Exeter, England, 1970RH Barrow, The Romans, Penguin Books Ltd., Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, 1976G. Alfldy, The Social History of Rome, The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1991...
