{"id":50500,"date":"2019-05-25T22:54:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T20:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/spectacles-in-colosseum\/"},"modified":"2019-05-25T22:54:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T20:54:45","slug":"spectacles-in-colosseum","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/spectacles-in-colosseum\/","title":{"rendered":"Spectacles in Colosseum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-art-and-culture\/roman-architecture\/roman-buildings\/colosseum\/\">The Flavian Amphitheater<\/a> was an amazing construction for ancient times. The engineers took care of every detail to such an extent that they even anticipated the possibility of spreading a special canvas roof that was stretched over the stands on hot days. It was referred to as <em>velum<\/em> or <em>velarium<\/em>. The audience could also count on another form of coolness. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As mentioned by <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/seneca-the-younger\/\">Seneca the Yougher<\/a>, on special occasions over the heads of the spectators of the gladiatorial games, a refreshing mist (<em>sparsio<\/em>) was sprayed, sometimes carrying the smell of pleasant fragrances. Another version of <em>sparsio<\/em> was the scattering of gifts or tokens among viewers &#8211; they were referred to as <em>missilia.<\/em> Such facilities were also introduced at the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-art-and-culture\/roman-architecture\/roman-buildings\/colosseum\/\">Colosseum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The rulers tried to take care of the audience, who, being a representative of the Roman people, could express adoration for the emperor in the event of successful games. For example, the Emperor <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/titus-flavius\/\">Titus Flavius<\/a>, in order to celebrate the opening of the Colosseum, ordered the audience to throw wooden balls into the public square. There were names of various kinds of awards on them: <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-society\/eating-habits-of-romans\/\">food<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/article\/jewelry-in-ancient-rome\/\">jewelry<\/a> or slaves. <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/domitian\/\">Domitian<\/a> in turn gave the audience exotic fruit and rare products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36203,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-50500","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\/50500","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\/50500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=50500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}