-
Circense is a 1980
studio album recorded by the
Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist
Egberto Gismonti. The
album was
created with the idea of being...
- "Bread and circuses" (or "bread and games"; from Latin:
panem et
circenses) is a
metonymic phrase referring to
superficial appea****t. It is attributed...
- Tropicália ou
Panis et
Circencis (misspelled
Latin for
Bread and circuses) is a 1968
collaboration album by
artists including Gilberto Gil,
Caetano Veloso...
- cult of state. The
earliest ludi were
horse races in the
circus (ludi
circenses).
Animal exhibitions with mock
hunts (venationes) and
theatrical performances...
- check. The
satirist Juvenal, however, saw "bread and circuses" (panem et
circenses) as
emblematic of the loss of
republican political liberty: The public...
-
victory go to him who has
deserved it");
frequently used
motto panem et
circenses bread and
circuses From Juvenal,
Satire X, line 81.
Originally described...
- for
Bread and
Games – a
translation of the
famous Latin phrase panem et
circenses from the
satires of Juvenal).
Trier has been the base for the
German round...
- 1998, p. 14 (including note #74). Kyle
contextualises Juvenal's
panem et
circenses—bread and
games as a sop to the
politically apathetic plebs (Satires,...
- sports,
introducing harpastum, a ball game
similar to soccer, and ludi
circenses,
which included team
chariot racing.
These sports provided a
sense of...
-
satirized superficial politicians and the
public as
caring only for "panem et
circenses" (bread and circuses). In
Russia in 1917, the
Bolsheviks promised "peace...
