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- "Bread and circuses" (or "bread and games"; from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appea****t. It is attributed...
- 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...
- cult of state. The earliest ludi were horse races in the circus (ludi circenses). Animal exhibitions with mock hunts (venationes) and theatrical performances...
- Tropicália ou Panis et Circencis (misspelled Latin for Bread and circuses) is a 1968 collaboration album by artists including Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso...
- begins. The Satires of Juvenal intimate that bread and circuses (panem et circenses) keep the Roman people happy. Pope Telesphorus succeeds Pope Sixtus I...
- check. The satirist Juvenal, however, saw "bread and circuses" (panem et circenses) as emblematic of the loss of republican political liberty: The public...
- 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...
- 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...
- sports, introducing harpastum, a ball game similar to soccer, and ludi circenses, which included team chariot racing. These sports provided a sense of...
- Volturnalis made a sacrifice to Volturnus 28: Games at the Circus Maximus (circenses) for Sol and Luna 1 (Kalends): ceremonies for Jupiter Tonans ("the Thunderer")...