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The Romans not only loved the theater, they loved chariot races, and the blood sport they invented, gladiatorial combat, which was no part of the ancient Greek games.\u00a0 Not surprising then that we have motifs from both the games and theaters in the baths.\u00a0 And yes this town was large enough to have a major […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":72452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15557,15560],"class_list":["post-72449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-water","tag-water-everywhere"],"yoast_head":"\n
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