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<p>[QUOTE="JayAg47, post: 7593276, member: 112342"]The Colosseum was built 125 years after JC was assassinated, although it is true that they had mock naval battles!</p><p>Regarding the cost, the colosseum could hold 50,000 spectators, and lets say everyone got a sestertius worth of free bread and wine(althoug cheap and diluted), that alone would come to 12,500 denarii, then you include the cost of gladiators while factoring in the cost of training and feeding them, it would be around 3000-5000 denarii each (an ordinary adult slave costed 500 denarii), also they had exotic animals like lion, tiger, rhinos, elephants and leopards, which would've costed much more than a human, and then you have all the workers to pay to clean up the piss, blood, and vomit after the games are over. This is only for a normal one day game.</p><p>And repeat this for 100 more days when Titus celebrated the Colosseum's inauguration, and the cost would've been exponentially higher for naval battles![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="JayAg47, post: 7593276, member: 112342"]The Colosseum was built 125 years after JC was assassinated, although it is true that they had mock naval battles! Regarding the cost, the colosseum could hold 50,000 spectators, and lets say everyone got a sestertius worth of free bread and wine(althoug cheap and diluted), that alone would come to 12,500 denarii, then you include the cost of gladiators while factoring in the cost of training and feeding them, it would be around 3000-5000 denarii each (an ordinary adult slave costed 500 denarii), also they had exotic animals like lion, tiger, rhinos, elephants and leopards, which would've costed much more than a human, and then you have all the workers to pay to clean up the piss, blood, and vomit after the games are over. This is only for a normal one day game. And repeat this for 100 more days when Titus celebrated the Colosseum's inauguration, and the cost would've been exponentially higher for naval battles![/QUOTE]
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