![]() By offering grand spectacles like chariot races with wagering, gladiatorial combat to the death, men fighting beasts, warships fighting other warships, military battle re-enactments, and by providing the populace with free grains, exotic oils, & intoxicating wines all Romans would be compliant and forego there civic duty and certainly not dare revolt. In his accounts of ancient Rome, Juvenal makes mention of a brilliant scheme to pacify and distract the citizenry of Rome. The phrase “Bread and Circuses” or as it would have been uttered in the time of Caesar -“panem et circences” was coined by the Roman poet and satirist Juvenal in about 100 AD. ![]() The bistro name, “Bread & Circuses” dates back nearly two thousand years, to the once great Roman Republic. ![]()
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