Examples Of Panem In Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome is closer to an ideal society than Panem is because Rome provided basic human needs, including happiness, free of charge, to its citizens even though they didn’t have to. Ancient Rome lasted for hundreds of years and spanned three continents. It had an organized social structure, in and outside the city of Rome. There were many eras of peace and prosperity and they had beautiful architecture and substantial engineering, as seen throughout Rome, Italy, and most of Europe. Emperors built magnificent markets, public baths, and the roads and aqueducts that gave citizens access to clean water and connected the vast empire. Aelius Aristides, a greek orator who gave a speech in Rome on the Pax Romana, said “Vast as it is, your empire
Neither of these societies is absolutely ideal but Panem is not ideal because they force all the citizens to work hard and long hours for little or no pay. The Capitol takes the goods the districts produce and uses them in the Capitol for their own purposes and doesn’t give anything back to the districts. There are restrictions on communication, trade, and travel. They take children from the districts and force them to kill each other in a manipulated arena for the Capitols’ entertainment. Rome is closer to the ideal society because they didn’t go to the extent of brutality that Panem did. They did have battles to the death, but the Gladiators were trained and any citizen had the option whether or not they wanted to go to Colosseum to see the games. Rome built roads to ease travel and communication across their empire for the benefit of travelers everywhere. They built aqueducts that gave their people clean water and bathhouses for bathing and cleanliness. The ideal (and impossible) society would be where everyone was equal and fair. Anyone and everyone would have access to clean water, electricity, food, education, work that they liked, communication, and knowledge. Ancient Rome came closer to that ideal society than