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Pompey's Games (dedication of his theatre, 55 BC)
Pompey's games
The lavish games marking the dedication of Pompey's stone theatre in the Campus Martius, late September 55 BC: stage plays under Sp. Maecius Tarpa's curation, gladiators, two five-day venationes, ending with the famous slaughter of elephants whose distress drew the crowd's pity.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 7.1 §1 the games
The lavish dedication-games of Pompey's stone theatre, the first permanent theatre at Rome (in the Campus Martius), held in late September 55 BC.
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