Ngl this does make me kind of curious about ancient world event logistics
Well yeah I figured, I meant bigger picture. How far did people often travel from? How many people attended? Were there some events that brought much larger crowds than others? What were food options like in the area? Lodging? Garbage disposal?
iirc garbage went with sewage waste & in fountain channels. they didn't have all that much to dispose of that wasn't biodegrable
they had street food & taverns/brothels where people could sleep
yeah there was food, and garbage disposal would be about the same as today: some guy pushes his cart and picks it up, moves it too a bigger cart.
Dunno how universal this is, but the Colosseum/Flavian Amphitheater had a massive underground section where supplies would be stockpiled for the games. The underground section is exposed to the open air today, so if you visit you can see it from above. As for getting the supplies down there, teamsters and dock workers have been among the largest urban professions since the dawn of civilization, so the answer is a lot of overworked slaves and proletarii.
teamsters and dock workers have been among the largest urban professions since the dawn of civilization,
This is true. I saw a teamster the other day and I was in awe at the size of this lad.
Unless you were a farmer, merchant, or noble, you most likely walked everywhere your entire life.
Yeah as a guy who knows nothing about that world, the question in OP is interesting to me.
There's a video from the channel told in stone on youtube that talks about it. It's pretty interesting.
The photos, which were swiftly removed following some public backlash, :blob-no-thoughts: show an Indianapolis SWAT sniper manning a custom-built Remington M700 in an XLR Industries chassis perched on an Alamo Four Star DCLW tripod.:panting:
Agent 47, it seems like your target has an affinity for professional football
How long before one of those cops topples of his chair reaching for his extra-large bucket of coke and accidentally takes someones fucking head clean off?
anyone knows the Stadium , Seems insanely High where he is...
Bruh, what the fuck do they think this could be useful for? Like a fucking fan taking a hostage but at a safe distance while totally alone? A very common thing to happen in a tribune, yes.
Good lord their brains are rotten with corn syrup
this just seems like "making up a guy to get mad at"
like the question seems dumb to me cause obviously they walked but i dont really feel like this is interesting to dunk on idk
i try to be generous to people who are actually asking questions in apparently good faith even if their assumptions seem silly . they're trying to get informed. we all gotta do that.
to be clear, i hate americans and i hate classicism.
it honestly is so weird how america fixates on Rome yet knows nothing about it. Like, how do you manage that?
No. A true R*dditor is a wehraboo, but since that's kind of frown upon they restort to be Romeaboos and so they must know that kind of useless trivia data.
I keep asking historians how ancient Roman traffic lights worked but they just keep laughing at me :rage-cry:
For at least part of the city's history, they banned nearly all wheeled vehicles during daylight hours. Don't remember the specifics though.
Just imagine how bad the public toilets smelled when the city was at full capacity.
PS, they're holding reusable communal sponges .
It's a little-known fact that corn syrup comes from corn buttholes.
The Romans had people mutilate themselves in public in the arena- how can you know that and not imagine that the life's of the people watching were even more wretched?
Some Roman emperors catapulted snakes into crowds of people that's the level of not giving a shit they were operating at
How many levels of free market "consent" are you on? Free people who chose to become gladiators knew what they were signing up for back then too, it doesn't mean something's okay because people willingly do it.
People knew what they were signing up for back then too
How do you not know that gladiator fights used slaves?
Also, we already have the modern "free market" equivalent of gladiator fights, it's called the NFL.
How do you not know that gladiator fights used slaves?
You're right, gladiators were categorically slaves - however there were people that freely chose to become gladiators ( and therefore "willingly", or at least were not forced by threat of torture/death, became slaves). I agree with you, I was trying to make the point that it ( and the NFL, to your point) are bad even if people have a choice in participating.
From what I understand, grappling was quite a big part of ancient combat . Gladiators were trained to fight with a bit more flair, so it would be comparable to modern day pro wrestling, but people would die.
If we had combat sports that people voluntary participated in (not economically forced into and excellent health care) I would be all about that. Hell if I was less broken I'd sign up.
