Perhaps you can only call yourself a cynic if you have first learnt to curb your enthusiasm. Read on:
66 AD ."Just as dumb animals are caught with food, so men can only be snared when they are nibbling hopefully at something". Before his suicide in 66, Petronius, the author of The Satyricon, also wrote out a list of Nero's perversions.
1304. The arts of Florence included a foretaste of reality TV. A performance of Hell took place in a theatre built on boats in the Arno. Overloaded with spectators, a nearby bridge collapsed into the river. It was said that those who had gone to see hell got just what they were looking for.
