Sentence examples for roman games from inspiring English sources

Are there parallels between the Roman games and the entertainment industry today?

He is thought to have instituted the Roman Games and to have begun the construction of a wall around the city.

Certainly, few living astronomers expect to find Planet 892-IV, the gladiator-movie planet, where Spock and McCoy were forced to battle in Roman games.

The process that results is less like the Roman Senate than like the Roman Games: a sanguinary legislative Colosseum where at any moment some two-bit emperor is apt to signal the thumbs-down.

The X Factor judges believe they have an inexhaustible supply of people with really sad stories who can sing a bit, but then so did Roman emperors about Great Auks and Eurasian Lynxes but they slaughtered so many of them at their Roman Games that they became extinct.

This huge, half-ruined circular stadium is Rome's most iconic structure, and it was once the home to the ruthless Roman games, in which gladiators and prisoners would battle each other – not to mention a menagerie of wild animals – for the entertainment of a bloodthirsty crowd.

Some historians trace the sport back to the Roman game of paganica, which involved using a bent stick to hit a wool- or feather-stuffed leather ball.

This popular medieval game was played with equal forces on each side and thus was not a tafl variant, but rather may have been the medieval descendant of the Roman game Latrunculi or Ludus latrunculorum.

In the Roman circus games, chariot racing took foremost place, and chariotry became socially important.

Assuming she meant the Roman gladiatorial games rather than the TV show, she was right.

The Greek myth of Theseus served as a major basis for the story, with Collins describing Katniss as a futuristic Theseus, and Roman gladiatorial games provided the framework.