Hallo,
Voor een online quiz kreeg ik een lastige vraag namelijk:
Wat zijn de Capitolijnse Spelen ?
Gezien de kennis van het forum hoop ik dat een van de leden het antwoord op deze vraag weet.
Met vrgr
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It is worth making reference to the example mentioned by Dion Cassius (79,10) and Philostratos (Heroic. 679). During the 250th Olympiad (221 A.D.) the Roman Aurelius Helix (according to others Aelix) registered to take part in the wrestling and in the pankration. It would seem that he was a very capable athlete since he had also been victor in the Capitolian Games of Rome. The Elians did not wish to give the opportunity to a Roman to prove himself victor in both these events, the more especially because much was being said regarding his relations with the abnormal emperor Heliogabalus. They could not, however, preclude him openly. For this reason at this Olympiad they did not hold the event of wrestling.
This series, a history of martyrs, began like this:
"Domitian was reigning; he had banished the philosophers and wise men from Rome, increased the pay of the Praetorian guard, reestablished the Capitolian games, and this merciful emperor was adored until one day he was stabbed to death. For some the apotheosis was before; for others it was afterwards, that's all.
We are in Rome in the 95th year of Jesus Christ."
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