joke aside, the Hippodrome was your common low key football game, with betting and people going crazy. The Colloseum on the other side was a special occasion where you better looked your best and behaved, as a spectator. Hollywood never got the memo.
The circus maximus (the big hippodrome in Rome) also hosted gladiatorial fights and athletics competitions. The meme is misleading in the way it selects the venues.
Horse race tracks rent out to different groups for conventions and such when not racing horses - I wouldn't be surprised if that happened in ancient Rome too.
This post was written by average red team enjoyer. Reds haven't won anything since antiquity because they're so inferior to Blue/Green. Even smooth brain green team supporters know this.
36 Comments
edinbruh@feddit.it · 51 pts · 24d
stfu! Glorious hippodrome gaming chariot race
Jiral@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 24d
joke aside, the Hippodrome was your common low key football game, with betting and people going crazy. The Colloseum on the other side was a special occasion where you better looked your best and behaved, as a spectator. Hollywood never got the memo.
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 24d
Doesn't even have a hippo. SMH my head.
frog@feddit.uk · 22 pts · 24d
Um.. acshelly! Hippo in Greek means horse.
* Pushes glasses up nose bridge.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 24d
Hippopotamus means river horse, I don't think whoever named these things has ever seen a horse.
GojuRyu@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 24d
In danish a hippo is called a “flodhest”, also meaning river horse.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 24d
Rødgrød med flodhest
ebber@europe.pub · 2 pts · 23d
Only for the most special of times
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 23d
🦛
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 23d
Horses might have looked different back in the day
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 24d
excuse me! we had both chariot races and slave chariot races. that's TWO games
Vittelius@feddit.org · 4 pts · 23d
The circus maximus (the big hippodrome in Rome) also hosted gladiatorial fights and athletics competitions. The meme is misleading in the way it selects the venues.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 23d
These are memes reality has no place here
nagaram@piefed.social · 3 pts · 23d
Did you hear they were working on horse races? I know quite antiquated, but they were adding horse TORCH races this time! How novel!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 23d
You mean they torch the horses then race them?
nagaram@piefed.social · 2 pts · 23d
No! But that would be much more interesting....
ceenote@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 24d
By this logic, the greatest modern console is the smartphone.
frostlytt@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 23d
i mean, slap a controller on a smartphone and it is actually pretty solid, so maybe youve got a point...
Etterra@discuss.online · 13 pts · 24d
Horse race tracks rent out to different groups for conventions and such when not racing horses - I wouldn't be surprised if that happened in ancient Rome too.
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 23d
I do feel like the amount of people required to staff the colloseum is like two orders of magnitude higher than a racetrack
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 12 pts · 24d
Okay but a lot of those Colosseum games are just the same cookiecutter format with different branding.
"Gladiator combat" "Barbarian Battle" "Martyrs" it's the same shit with different characters.
"Man vs. Beast" "Hunting Simulator" YAWN
At least the later gen hippodromes added a variety of jousting tournaments...
Sergio@piefed.social · 3 pts · 23d
I think you mean "same game, different skin," right?
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 23d
Yeah, true
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 23d
Which one has more horsepower?
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 24d
I got no use for a console with no racing games. I'll be over here playing my hippodrome.
Sturgist@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 24d
Just gonna leave this here....
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 23d
All of those are just a variant on gladiator fighting.
olafurp@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 23d
This post was written by average red team enjoyer. Reds haven't won anything since antiquity because they're so inferior to Blue/Green. Even smooth brain green team supporters know this.
jdr@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 24d
Must be a supporter of the Blues
jay@pie.zerojay.com · 3 pts · 24d
Another game for the Colosseum: Overwatch.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 24d
Hippodrome also looks like a fairly decent Jousting Pitch
nullspace@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 24d
The last time I went to the colosseum they dragged a rapist out of retirement for a big bout and he only lasted 69 seconds after talking so much shit.
madvincent@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 24d
I paid 15,000 asses for a ticket to that fight
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 24d
uh, what's with the fake asses?
bob_lemon@feddit.org · 1 pts · 24d
One of them had hooligans with real influence on politics in the Byzantine empire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demes_in_the_Byzantine_Empire
bryophile@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 24d
Plus chariot racing wasn't even hippodrome exclusive