http://rogueclassicism.com/2009/07/02/classic-bleacher-report/ quidquid bene dictum est ab ullo, meum est Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:59:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://rogueclassicism.com/2009/07/02/classic-bleacher-report/#comment-739 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:52:05 +0000 http://rogueclassicism.com/?p=1593#comment-739 The “contact sport = heir to the Colosseum” thing is certainly more than a tad overused – although that doesn’t impact on whether or not the idea is correct, which I think it might be. (Not that I’m a psychologist or anthropologist, so I can’t really analyse the idea on more than a superficial level.) Apropos of gladiatorial comparisons to modern sport, you might be interested to know that the rugby league State of Origin series here in Australia this year was marketed as today’s version of the Colosseum – the tagline being “Sport’s Modern Gladiators”. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3P29KBLnzs )

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