>you will NEVER witness a miniature sea battle in a flooded

>>2565605
How long did they even do naumachias for? Surely it was a mess to organise and extremely costly.

>>2565711
This is Rome we're talking about

>>2565711
>Surely it was a mess to organise and extremely costly.

The more advanced a civilization the more advanced their bread and circuses must be

>>2565711
when there were events in the coliseum it was declared a holiday and no business was to be conducted

during the reign of Commodus there were over 100 of these holidays a year

>>2565723

as a career bureaucrat and roman law student, i wonder how ANYTHING got done in those years, like, at all.

imagine all the simultaneous fucking religious festivals and rituals and vigils and processions and random legal bullshit that couldn't be done conveniently. How did people not revolt when they risked losing their houses and jobs due to a forced holyday.

>>2565909
and

>>2565936

and that it's just completely uncharacteristic for such insanely uptight, inflexible assholes like Romans to be very generous with business deadlines and contracts.

>>2565605
if it makes you feel any better, the ships were on wheels, and there was only a few inches of water.

>>2565966
[Citation Needed]

>>2565957
Because the majority of "Romans" i.e. the people who lived in Rome were dependent on government grain rations.

>>2565909
>How did people not revolt when they risked losing their houses and jobs due to a forced holyday.

Because it was the only day of the week most of the population had good quality meat.

>>2565957
No emperor better exemplifies "bread and circuses" better than Commodus. The mob is too busy being entertained and enjoying free food to notice everything going to shit around them. After all, if they kick up a fuss they might cause the next holiday to be delayed or cancelled and nobody wants that.