All of the following are true about public spectacle (gladiator games and chariot races) in Rome EXCEPT
They reflect the needs and power of the non elite population.
They were a way for aristocrats and emperors to divert popular energy in an
effort to dissuade civil unrest.
O Participants tended to be criminals or the enslaved.
They had Etruscan origins.
They remained unchanged from Republic to Empire, and elites never criticized on
attempted to control them.