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<p>[QUOTE="Gam3rBlake, post: 7593291, member: 115909"]Oops my bad!</p><p><br /></p><p>I know Julius Caesar had a mock naval battle but I was wrong about the location xD.</p><p><br /></p><p>However based on all the information I have about costs of things in Ancient Rome I imagine it was common for gladiator games at the Colliseum to cost tens of millions of denarii. If not hundreds of millions for the very large ones like Tiberius' 100 days of games and Commodus's 14 days of plebian games where he participated as a gladiator...except his opponents were given dull blades to keep him safe.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fun fact: Caligula spent ~2 billion sestercii (500 million denarii) in the first year of his reign as Emperor according to the Greek-Roman historian (and future consul) Cassius Dio. But that wasn't on games just living exorbitantly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then again Caligula was driven crazy by abuse from childhood to emperorship and from his "brain fever" and 3 month coma so his madness seems to be more of a genuine mental illness rather than him just being a cruel sadistic person.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1307925[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gam3rBlake, post: 7593291, member: 115909"]Oops my bad! I know Julius Caesar had a mock naval battle but I was wrong about the location xD. However based on all the information I have about costs of things in Ancient Rome I imagine it was common for gladiator games at the Colliseum to cost tens of millions of denarii. If not hundreds of millions for the very large ones like Tiberius' 100 days of games and Commodus's 14 days of plebian games where he participated as a gladiator...except his opponents were given dull blades to keep him safe. Fun fact: Caligula spent ~2 billion sestercii (500 million denarii) in the first year of his reign as Emperor according to the Greek-Roman historian (and future consul) Cassius Dio. But that wasn't on games just living exorbitantly. Then again Caligula was driven crazy by abuse from childhood to emperorship and from his "brain fever" and 3 month coma so his madness seems to be more of a genuine mental illness rather than him just being a cruel sadistic person. [ATTACH=full]1307925[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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