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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.

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