Those About to Die
by Daniel P. Mannix
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Author: Daniel P. MannixEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1974-09-12
ISBN: 0345242408
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Book Review: The true reason for the fall of Rome?
Summary: 5 Stars
Unfortunately, I am not a historian of Ancient Rome but this unforgettable book hammers away at me to try to determine its accuracy. If the book is even 50% accurate, historians have missed the boat completely on Ancient Rome. According to author, Daniel P. Mannix, this is a history of the games. These games commenced with the almost innocent, annual competitive, athletic rituals held at the Circus Maximus. They ended in the development and unfortunate daily operation of some kind of blood lust theater, including the construction and operation of the Flavian Circus, today known as the Coliseum of Rome, with gladiators, animals, bestial sex and other extreme perversions in almost every municipality of the Roman Empire. The games continued until this addictive social disease nearly wiped out the wild life population of Northern Africa and went on to devour deeply, fatally, into its fiscal and human resources. When it was over, there was very little left of what once was Empire. It all happened from within. The author's highly detailed; beguiling descriptions seem too strange to be fiction. The book compels the reader to read it repeatedly. We are constrained to draw upon today's parallels of ultra violent, inhuman Hollywood films and continuous wars that have no rhyme nor reason or purpose.
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