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Don’t Expect Naumachia Managers In IAVM Membership | By Glen Mikkelsen, CFE


       


   ever held – both in size and scale.  


 - machia,” plural naumachiae, is derived from Greek, and refers both  proelia (naval battles). -


 row new ships. Initially, the rowers would learn to row in unison on   -                     


-    not recorded how many ships were built for the event, but one trireme  


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With resplendent pageantry, the ships and their combatants were


      other side was destroyed.          was held in a small lake dug out from the lesser Codeta, biremes, and triremes and quadriremes (warships with two, three, or even four decks           number of battles. So many men thronged to all these spectacles, that many of the foreigners stayed either in the streets or in tents pitched in the streets, and often many were trampled or killed by the crowd and these included two senators.”


It truly was war entertainment! Unlike gladiatorial combat events,


which consisted of smaller groups of combatants, and where the “show” did not necessarily end with the death of the losers, a nauma- chia was a deadlier, and bloodier, event. 


   -      -   -  rowers manning the ships. For a facility manager, the costs of producing such spectacles would


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