THE LUST FOR BLOOD

The Games, the Colosseum, the Blood, the Gore, the Endless Days Each Year of Packed Stadiums, of Humans Screaming for More.  

• Why the spectacles?
• What did they accomplish, what was their impact?
• Why would the civilized people of that time create or promote these events?
• Why did they participate so readily?
• What would YOU have been doing?

Read What Special Students Think:

•  Karen Meredith, Foothill College: "A Contempt for Pain and
                     Death"
•  Alecia Dager, Foothill College:  "Brutality and Death
                      Entertainment."
• Taylor House, Foothill College: "The Bloodiest Displays of Public
                     Amusement Known to Man"
•  Christiane Gigas, Foothill College:  "The Oscar or the Emmy
                      Awards of the Roman Time"
•  Mary Kakaio, Foothill College:  "Gladiator Games with a Social and                    Political Purpose"

A Day at the Amphitheatre

Excerpt from Cowell's gripping and graphic description of unending blood and slaughter for the joy and adoration of the Roman mob.

   The Ancient World