JC was nothing if not an absolutely relentless innovator. He also had an awful lot of captured prisoners of war and enemy soldiers that he didn’t know what to do with. He appears to have resolved the dual problems of too many prisoners and the possibility of tedious executions by forcing the prisoners to re-enact battles in the arena for the entertainment of the crowd, thus forcing them all to kill one another. This is the kind of genius that gets a month named after them.
