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Bread and Circuses in Sci-Fi Films
Lecture no. 12 from the course: A Historian Goes to the Movies: Ancient Rome
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Taught by Professor Gregory S. Aldrete | 33 min | Categories: History
The Hunger Games, The Matrix, The Running Man, Rollerball, Ready Player One—each of these wildly different sci-fi films derive their premise from a line of poetry by the ancient Roman satirist Juvenal. How has a simple motif about “bread and circuses” powered some of the most memorable sci-fi plots in cinema?
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Bread and Circuses in Sci-Fi Films
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