Telemachus and Other Poems (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Telemachus and Other Poems Telemachus was the monk who, by the sacrifice of his life, brought to an end the gladiatorial games in the arena at Rome. This tragedy occurred in the year 404 of the Christian era. Previous to that time these bloody exhibitions were a feature of Roman festivity, as the bull-fights are to-day in Spain a feature of Spanish festivity. In the days of Telemachus Rome had been nominally Christian for nearly a hundred years, but the old barbarity still clung to Roman life. Public sentiment, however, had been gradually growing in the direction of the abolition of the gladiatorial contests. Something was needed to bring this sentiment to the surface. This the death of Telemachus did. Public opinion became at once hostile to a continuance of the bloody pastime, and it was abandoned forever. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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