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Despite the fact that the Romans over the years have organized bloody games on an increasing scale, some emperors<\/a> tried to curb the bestiality. Already at the beginning of rule of Augustus<\/a>, he tried to change the Roman customs – after the profusion of Julius Caesar<\/a> and earlier Gnaeus Pompeius<\/a> – and restore the Greek games, where more attention was paid to sports competitions. The games called Actiaca<\/em> were held for the first time in 28 BCE and they were to take place every 4 years, celebration o won battle of Actium<\/a>.
\nHowever, those were ridiculed by poets (Martial<\/a> or Juvenal). Hadrian<\/a>, on the other hand, forbade the insertion into the ranks of gladiators<\/a> slaves, who did not agree for that. Aurelius also limited the funds for munera<\/em> – the fight to the death, which took place outside of Rome<\/a>. However, the so-called munus<\/em> was difficult to root out. Emperors Titus<\/a>, Trajan<\/a> or Marcus Aurelius<\/a> have ordered to extend in the program a part called lusio<\/em> – so mock fight for life and death. However, it is difficult to treat it as an expression of kindness or a manifestation of humanitarianism. On the occasion of the opening of the Colosseum<\/a>, in the year 80 CE, during Titus’ reign, was to die in total 5, 000 animals<\/a>, while during Trajan<\/a> in 2 days were killed 2246 animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":95714,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-48074","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/48074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/48074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=48074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}