Salient. The Newspaper of Victoria University College. Vol. 19, No. 7. June 16, 1955

Not Bread Alone

Not Bread Alone

But even the Romans found that men cannot live by bread alone. Emotlonally starved and frustrated, herded in jerry-built tenement blocks, lacking opportunities for creative activities the slaves demanded the lavish provision of circuses and public entertainments. The areria, with its chariot races, provided an opportunity for competition, excitment and betting; and the circus, with its gladiatorial combats, an opportunity for the enjoyment of blood and danger and death.