Today we'll watch The Hunger Games as a bit of a preview of content we'll address in ELA and SS next semester.
Check out the categories below, then post a comment explaining connections between aspects of classical civilization and elements of the film. You must make at least 3 connections. Be sure to proofread
Allusion - reference in a literary or artistic work to another work or to a historical event or person
- Panem et Circenses
- bread and circuses
- Cinna
- Senator involved in the plot to assassinate Julius Caesar
- Poet killed after Caesar’s death - he was mistaken for the politician
- Roman Name References
- Cato, Portia, Octavia, Flavia
- Roman Class Structure
- Dress indicative of class
- Patronage
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The hunger games trilogy is greatly inspired by the events that took place in ancient rome, in the coliseum. They had the wealthy citizens (like the capitol) who sat in the audience watching the games with excitement, cheering for who they want to win, just like you and I cheer for our favorite sports team. They had the gladiators (like the careers) they were well trained, and ready to win. And then there were the slaves and war prisoners (like the tributes) they were weak, a lot of these prisoners were christians and all they had to do to stay alive was to lie, to renounce their religion publicly. But they didn’t, they stood up for their God even though it meant certain death.
ReplyDeleteThe hunger games trilogy is greatly inspired by the events that took place in ancient rome, in the coliseum. They had the wealthy citizens, the capital, who sat in the audience watching the games with excitement, cheering for who they want to win, just like you cheer for your favorite sports team. They had the gladiators, the careers, they were well trained, and ready to win. And then there were the slaves and war prisoners, the tributes, they were weak, a lot of these prisoners were christians and all they had to do to stay alive was to lie, to renounce their religion publicly. But they didn’t, they stood up for their God even though it meant certain death.
ReplyDelete-In Rome they put people in an arena to be killed off by lions and in the Hunger games they put people in an arena and let them kill off each other.
ReplyDelete-In Rome Cinna was a man who was in the plot to kill Caesar and in Catching Fire Cinna plots President Snows death.
-Panem means bread in roman and panem is the country the movie takes place
1.) The Hunger Games - In ancient Rome they had fights to the death in arenas that people could get tickets to and go see
ReplyDelete2.) Trading Goods - they traded goods in order to get what they needed to survive
3.) The Capital and the Districts - they had an imperial government to rule people and they had social classes (like the districts)
1. Panem has games where kids kill each other, and Rome also had games where people were killed.
ReplyDelete2. Social Classes: Panem had the rich Capitol citizens, wealthy district citizens, and poor district citizens. Rome also had higher and lower classes.
3. In Panem, citizens traded goods and services. Rome also traded.
1.In ancient Rome there would be gladiators that would be locked in an arena and would be forced to fight to the death and people would watch for enjoyment. The connection is that in the hunger games people were picked and forced to fight to the death for people to enjoy.
ReplyDelete2. Gladiators would usually be more in the lower class. They would usually be more in the lower class like slave, condemned criminals, etc. and in the hunger games people from lower classes are picked to compete and fight to death until there is one ultimate winner.
3. Also the lower you got in the social class the worst you were dressed and the worst food you got to eat. This connection can be made into many civilizations, but Rome is also one.
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The "Hunger Games" took place in ancient Rome, The hunger games was not at all a game it was children and teenagers fighting to the death in areas for the capitols(high class) people to enjoy! They traded goods like bread and butter in order to get things for them to survive. the had social classes called districs.
ReplyDelete1. The actual games are like the gladiator games in Rome. Like in both situations the rich place bets on people who they think are going to win. In the hunger game people have sponsors that help the tributes out and try to survive to be the victor. In Rome the greater the training which is paid for by the rich people the greater your chance of surviving.
ReplyDelete2. In Rome they gladiators were slaves basically, but in the Hunger games it is a drawing on 2 tributes out of each of the twelve districts. Once the tributes are picked though they become slaves of the country Panem.
3. Like in Rome there were social classes and people where kept in their place.
In both the king/ president is at the top of the food chain and has the power to do anything. The people in the Capitol are the rich ones with everything at their finger tips. The people in the districts are the farmers, traders, slaves, and just plain out nothing to any one.
In the hunger games they had trade between peasant and government officials as did ancient Rome. Hunger games was a fight to death to entertain people Rome did the same thing.Rome did this to stop the attempts to overthrow the government so did Panem
ReplyDeleteOne connection between Ancient Rome and the Hunger Games is the social classes. The lower on the social classes you go, the worse the lifestyle is. Another connection is the names of the many characters. Katniss, Peeta, Cinna, and Octavia are all Roman names. The final connection is the Arena. Many brave people were sent into the arena to fight for their lives.
ReplyDeleteThe hunger games is a lot like Ancient Rome, they both have people fight to the death for their enjoyment, and have social classes.
ReplyDelete1. Cinna, in Rome and Hunger games, was a rebel and wemt against the leaders.
ReplyDelete2. The names in Hunger Games, like Cato, Portia, and Octavia, are ancient Roman names.
3. Gladiators often competed in national, violent sports in Rome. In the Hunger Games, they do the same. Stevan Fairburn
1. The Hunger Games is similar to gladiator fights in Ancient Rome
ReplyDelete2. The Hunger Games and Ancient Roman Empire both had a central source of power and wealth with outer regions that suffer to support it.
3. Also in The Hunger Games and Ancient Rome they have social classes with huge differences between the upper and lower classes.
1. In Rome people were forced to fight to death in an arena. The higher class men watched these killings for entertainment.
ReplyDelete2. In early Rome and the Hunger games there were 12 boys and 12 girls fighting.
3. In Rome they had someone who picked who would lay in the games. But, in the Hunger Games they draw from a bowl to pick who will play.
The Hunger Games is very similar to ancient Rome. The first example is the social class s.tructure. This is very similar to the districts in the Hunger Games. They all represent the social class structure. The next example is is the names like Cato, Portia, Octavia, Flavia is Roman names like Cato means wise in Roman. The last examples are the bread and circuses it is a galdiator games where everyone kills eachother.
ReplyDelete1. In Ancient Rome gladiators would fight to the death, just like the tributes in the Hunger Game.
ReplyDelete2. In the Hunger Games people traded for things, such as Katniss got the pin from Geasy Sae, just like in Ancient Rome
3. The lower class don't get much food in Ancient Rome, and in the Hunger Games the 12 districts, the people don't get much food either.
1.The tributes rode in on chariots.
ReplyDelete2.The districts are similar to the social classes of Rome.
3.Portia, Cato, and Octavia are Roman names.
The Hunger Games is so relative to Rome, it almost appears to be based on it. Here are some reasons of why I think so:
ReplyDelete1) They play a 'game' which includes an audience of upperclassmen watching lower classes duke it out.
2) The Romans had legions similar to the districts.
3) The Romans used chariots for their game in the Coliseum, as the hun=nger games used chariots in the beauty compitition.
4) The capital was filled with wealth and greed, as were the romans, which were both later overrun.
1. In Panem, people are put in an arena to fight to the death for the entertainment of the Capitol. In Rome, people were put in an arena (gladiators) for the entertainment of the nobility.
ReplyDelete2. In Panem, the districts that are farther away from the Capitol and are poorer wear clothes that aren't as nice as the richer districts. In Rome, the higher social classes wore nicer clothes than the lower ones.
3. Cinna in the Hunger Games wasn't on the Capitol's side. Cinna in Rome was a politician involved in the plot to assassinate Julius Caesar.
1. In Rome they had coliseums where they put gladiators in and had them ether fight each other or wild animals.
ReplyDelete2. The capital and the districts have a similar social class structure, starting from the capital being the highest and then down to district 12 being the lowest.
3. Many of the names in the hunger games have roman influence like Panem, Cato, and Octavian.
The ¨Hunger Games¨ is kind of like the games with the gladiators in ancient Rome.People would find people in lower classes to compete and fight to their death.The people that were in higher social classes would go out and pay to see these type of games.These social classes had lots of differences people at the top of the classes were wealthy and had lots of valuable things.But the people at the bottom of the class had lesser things.Also people would trade there goods and supplies to survive just like in ancient Rome.These are some comparison like in ancient Rome to the ¨Hunger Games¨.
ReplyDeleteLike the hunger games Rome would have people fight to the death also in a public arena
ReplyDeleteCinna Kattniss' stylist is a popular roman person he was elected as a leader until he was killed.
Some of the names in hunger games are also popular roman names such as Cato, Portia, Flavia, Octavia, And Cinna
The Hunger Games had social classes just like Rome. They were dressed according to their districts/social class. They were forced to fight In the Hunger Games so this was a similarity to Rome. The names in the movie also reflected back to classical Rome. They were either names of people or were referred back to a meaning. Names such as Cato. Portia, Octavia, and Flavia are Roman names.
ReplyDelete1. In Ancient Rome they thought it was less humiliating to kill yourself than to step foot into the arena. If slaves have committed a crime, they would have to go inside of the arena to fight to the death.
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The Hunger Games is much like ancient Rome. First,the social class structure is very similar. This is like the districts in the Hunger Games. They represent social classes. Next the names Cato, Portia, Octavia, amd Flavia are Roman names like Cato means wise in Roman.
ReplyDeleteThe Hunger Games holds man parallels to the world of ancient Rome, including, but not limited to:
ReplyDelete1. The disparity between the rich and the poor.
From the opening shots we are given clear differences between the life of the rich in the Capitol to the poorest of the poor, those in District 12. The rich live lavish lives compared to the lowest in the social ladder, who have to scavenge for food and live under the shadow of the colossus. Just as in Rome, kings and queens and noblemen and noblewomen lived luxurious lives while slaves often went days without food or clothing, living on what they could find.
2. Choosing lesser persons to fight to the death for entertainment
The Romans would often send slaves and criminals to fight against animals or each other for pure purposes of entertainment, as we can see from the Hunger Games where children are sent to fight to the death. The Coliseum, from Ancient Rome, also holds parallels to the Arena from the Hunger Games.
3. Tributes are thought of as animals
Although children are being sent to fight in the Hunger Games, they are not thought of as children, they are thought of as animals, as objects purely for entertainment. In ancient Rome, gladiators were also dehumanized for purposes of entertainment and popular appeal.