Endnote 14 – No Guts, No Glory

Cicero might ask: “But what pleasure can it possibly be for a man of culture, when either a puny human being is mangled by a most powerful beast, or a splendid beast is transfixed with a hunting spear?” (in Letters to his Friends 7.1.3 Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1929); but Cicero clearly went to the shows.