Just quickly, the WT Library CD shows that Mannix has also been cited/quoted once per decade in the WT since 1960, 3 times during the '70s in the Awake!, once in the Reasoning book, once in the latest Teacher book and in the 1983 and 2002 School or Education brochures. That's just where he's been named. He may have been quoted as an unnamed source elsewhere.
THIS NEEDS ITS OWN THREAD:: TODAY's WT Paragraph 16
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here is another good book on the subject of gladiators - Emperors and Gladiators by Thomas Wiedemann - which brings some context to the table and even suggests why Roman christians were so opposed to gladiators (they offered a rival representation for hope of resurrection) and which can enrich our lives today both Christian and non Christian. He is a respected scholar but the book is expensive.
In another article T Wiedemann rates the film Gladiator highly because of its accurate portrayal of Roman virtue and fighting spirit, although he views it as grossly unhistorical as to historical detail.
Should we donate a copy to WT headquarters? -edit maybe not as they may misquote from it to order everyone to pioneer
from amazon
Of all aspects of Roman culture, the gladiatorial contests for which the Romans built their amphitheatres are at once the most fascinating and the most difficult for us to come to terms with. They have been seen variously as sacrifices to the gods or, at funerals, to the souls of the deceased; as a mechanism for introducing young Romans to the horrors of fighting; and as a direct substitute for warfare after the imposition of peace.
In this original and authoritative study, Thomas Wiedemann argues that gladiators were part of the mythical struggle of order and civilisation against the forces of nature, barbarism and law breaking, representing the possibility of a return to new life from the point of death; that Christian Romans rejected gladiatorial games not on humanitarian grounds, but because they were a rival representation of a possible resurrection. -
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Lied2no more & Annomaly are correct, the WT Lib is full of Daniel P. Mannix quotes. Even in the 'School Brochure' under flag saluting. Here is one of the more interesting quotes from the 1975 Awake 12/8 pg 3-4:
That is the way Christians in the early centuries felt. You can read in history books of the efforts made by Roman officials to get early Christians to make sacrifices to the “genius” of the emperor, even by such a small act as putting a pinch of incense on the altar as a sacrifice. Of Christians brought into Roman arenas to die, one history says: “Very few of the Christians recanted, although an altar with a fire burning on it was generally kept in the arena for their convenience. All a prisoner had to do was scatter a pinch of incense on the flame and he was given a Certificate of Sacrifice and turned free. . . . Still, almost no Christians availed themselves of the chance to escape.”—ThoseAbouttoDie, Daniel P. Mannix, pp. 135, 137.