Bread and Circuses (disambiguation)
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Bread and circuses was how the Roman poet Juvenal characterized the imperial leadership's way of placating the masses.
Bread and Circuses may also refer to:
In literature
- "The Code of Romulus" or "Bread and Circuses", a 2007 short story by Caroline Lawrence
In music
- Tropicália: ou Panis et Circenses, an album by members of the Tropicalismo movement
- Bread and Circuses (Colosseum album), 1997
- Bread and Circuses (The View album), 2011
- The Greatest Story Never Told Chapter 2: Bread and Circuses, a 2012 album by rapper Saigon
- "Bread and Circuses", the opening track of Harmony No Harmony by British post-hardcore band Million Dead
In television
- "Bread and Circuses" (Star Trek: The Original Series), a 1968 episode of Star Trek
- "Bread and Circuses" (Hell on Wheels), a 2011 episode of Hell on Wheels
See also
- Bread & Circus (store), a grocery store chain now part of Whole Foods Market
- Bread & Circus, a 1989 album by Toad the Wet Sprocket
- Brot und Spiele or Bread and Games, Germany's biggest Roman festival
- "Panis et Cirsenses", the opening track on the debut album by Brazilian band Os Mutantes
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