ENTERTAINMENT

Ancient Rome civilization had many different forms of entertainment that also differs to the hierarchical organization, wealthy or poor people. Wealthy people during ancient Rome had all the privileges such as work, education and even the way of entertainment. Wealthy people did exercises like jumping, wrestling, boxing and racing. Their pastimes were fishing, hunting, dice games, board games, and gamble games, but poor or wealthy women did not take part in these pastimes, that is not the same situation with children because they did activities to entertained themselves like play with toys and play leapfrog. In wealthy parties they usually danced, read poetry, ate many kind of dishes, drank wine, etc. A popular entertainment were gladiatorial combats, gladiators were prisoners, they fought a life or death with several weapons (sometimes armed or unarmed) and into the arena were wild animals. Themselves were in the hands of the emperor, he made a hand gesture, that was holding a raised fist to the winning, the gesture of death that many films show us were thumbs down is not prove, many experts say that no one is certain of what the gestures were.