![]() ![]() SPQR, of course, is an odd title for any book, especially one about Rome. ![]() ![]() ![]() The comic did his act and survived.īut there was a bloody postscript, as Mary Beard writes in SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, “Soon after, all the Romans in the town were killed.” So spare the swallow, which the gods allow to nest safely in all your houses!” I travel throughout Italy searching for favors by making people laugh and giving pleasure. Fearing that the other part of the theater crowd would take out their own anger on him, he pleaded: Then, it was the turn of the next comic to come out, a comic whose routine, a great favorite of Roman audiences, ridiculed the country bumpkins outside of city. The Romans in the audience got so mad that they attacked him on stage. One comic performer took the stage, and, as was his schtick, he made fun of Rome. That alliance, though, was fraying, and a four-year conflict, known as the Social War or the War of the Allies, was about to break out. One night in Asculum in 91 BC, the crowd at the theater was made up of Romans and people from the town and other parts of Italy that were allied with Rome. ![]()
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