In the spectacles of gladiators, sometimes, when the sun was violently hot, he would order the curtains, which covered the amphitheatre, to be drawn aside [427], and forbad any person to be let out... Sometimes shutting up the public granaries, he would oblige the people to starve for ...
In the ancient world, color was not a criterion by which people judged each other. So how did the ideology of racism begin? Jackson sends Jacobovici and Hirsch on a mission to understand the process that led Europeans to see slavery as not only profitable, but rational and justified. Parall...