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To: cosmicforce who wrote (56838)	9/4/2002 1:48:40 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 82486

Most of paganism used animal sacrifice, as did the original Levitical form of Judaism, without developing gladiatorial contests. Greece had a very similar religious culture to Rome, to the extent of having roughly the same hierarchy of Gods under different names, and used animal sacrifice, and never developed those sorts of "games". It is not very clear why the Romans went in that direction. Certainly, one could attain glory as a gladiator, and it thus touches that part of the human psyche. As for bullfighting, it actually began with the Greek colonies on the Iberian peninsula, which apparently continued some form of Minotaur cult from Crete, involving acrobtic contests using the bull's horns and back. I would not be surprised if there were some relationship between primitive bullfighting and the gladiatorial contests, but I am not sure what it would be.......