Talk:A Courtesan of Rome/@comment-35568572-20181031075107/@comment-35568572-20181103212450

There should be no Flavian Amphitheatre. That barbaric thing of watching people kill each other was NEVER part of the Roman culture, until the most decadent of gens came to power (the Flavians). That is so not Roman, as far as I'm concerned. The Flavians started the corruption and decadence, Constantinus and Theodosius (I don't even feel like calling them Emperors) give the coup de grace. The Coloseum being there is outrageous. According to popular narrative, Marcus Antonius lived from 83 BCE to 30 BCE, the Amphitheatre wasn't built until a hundred years after his death (70-80 CE). As an Italian born and raised, I'm utterly disgusted.