Bread and Circus

Bread and Circus is a metaphor that was made in Ancient Greece. The term "Bread and Circus" means choosing food and fun over freedom. In Ancient Greece instead of Broadway and Opera they had Gladiators, fights between men and wild animals, and also warships fighting each other in an arena. When these fights would go on they would hand the people sitting in the crowd bread, to ultimately distract them from the real issues that were going on. This was a way for who ever was ruling at the time to keep the people happy without causing an uprising.