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Bread and circuses" (or "bread and games"; from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement. It is attributed to Juvenal ( Satires , Satire X), a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD, and is used commonly in cultural, particularly political, contexts.
Bread & Circus is the debut album by American alternative rock band Toad the Wet Sprocket, originally self-released on cassette in 1988, and re-released in 1989 by Columbia Records. [ 6 ] In May 2009, the band announced plans to re-release Bread & Circus , out of print since 2001, in a remastered edition with expanded artwork and unreleased ...
Tropicália ou Panis et Circencis (Latin for Bread and circuses) is a 1968 collaboration album by artists including Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Tom Zé, Nara Leão, Os Mutantes and Gal Costa. Considered an important record in the Tropicália movement and in the history of Brazilian music, it features orchestral arrangements by Rogerio Duprat ...
"Bread and Roses" is a political slogan as well as the name of an associated poem and song. It originated in a speech given by American women's suffrage activist Helen Todd; a line in that speech about "bread for all, and roses too" [1] inspired the title of the poem Bread and Roses by James Oppenheim. [2]
"Bread and Circuses" is the fifth episode of the first season of the American television drama series Hell on Wheels; it aired December 4, 2011 on AMC, and was written by Mark Richard and directed by Adam Davidson. Its title is a reference to the phrase "bread and circuses" taken from Juvenal's poem, "Satire X". In the episode, Joseph Black ...
Bread & Circuses is a 1997 album by Colosseum. Track listing "Watching Your Every Move" (Dick Heckstall-Smith, Clem Clempson, Jon Hiseman) – 4:03
Heads up: When you 'stop running from it' and know you’ve outgrown your friend group 'It's hard to take back the feelings' If you're a human with a beating heart, you're going to compare ...
Bread & Circus (store), a grocery store chain now part of Whole Foods Market; Bread & Circus, a 1989 album by Toad the Wet Sprocket; Pan y Circo, a 2020 Mexican TV series; 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