Fact Check - 6. The Distributive Justice of Group Feasts and Banquets
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Query: 6. The Distributive Justice of Group Feasts and Banquets
Fact Check
Quoted text:
The Great Games lasted from September 519 BC until the first century BC.
Can you check this fact? Per Fowler 1909 on p. 291, “Ludi Romani” lasted “from September 5 to September 19 in Cicero’s time” (first century BC). But we don’t see anything about 519 BC and aren’t sure what that’s referring to. Originally this sentence was written, before our edits:
By the first century BC the Great Games lasted from September 519 BC.
The idea seems to be that the “Great Games” were religious and thus free, and lasted from the early Roman Empire until the first century BC when Tiberius Gracchus made the public pay for them. But this is only a hypothesis based on the following paragraphs.
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