11-29-2007, 07:31 PM
Grant doesn't explicitly write the word "holocaust" but I mean the following passage on p. 105, end of second paragraph from his book about which I stumbled:
For me that is a comparison to the Nazi regime and implies that the carnage of humans in the Roman empire (which lasted longer of course as the Third Reich) was nearly as worse as the holocaust of the Nazis and the dead people of WW2. And this cannot be compared in my point of view. They are totally different reasons why the human beings were slaughtered.
In my opinion he has totally overdrawn this last chapter.
Yes, you are right it is an introduction to the topic "Gladiators" but even an introduction should be correct. Due to the age of the book esp. the types of gladiators are mixed up and wrong. There is no good introduction around except for children's book, at least in German the "Was ist Was" book on gladiators is a good one, at least the new revised edition by Marcus Junkelmann. I'm not familiar with English children's books though.
Quote:The Spanish taste for excitement and blood finds its outlet in bull-fighting; the Nazis slaughtered human beings on a scale exceeding even that of the Romans.
For me that is a comparison to the Nazi regime and implies that the carnage of humans in the Roman empire (which lasted longer of course as the Third Reich) was nearly as worse as the holocaust of the Nazis and the dead people of WW2. And this cannot be compared in my point of view. They are totally different reasons why the human beings were slaughtered.
In my opinion he has totally overdrawn this last chapter.
Yes, you are right it is an introduction to the topic "Gladiators" but even an introduction should be correct. Due to the age of the book esp. the types of gladiators are mixed up and wrong. There is no good introduction around except for children's book, at least in German the "Was ist Was" book on gladiators is a good one, at least the new revised edition by Marcus Junkelmann. I'm not familiar with English children's books though.
