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.
Participants tended to be criminals or the enslaved.
They had Etruscan origins.
They remained unchanged from Republic to Empire, and elites never criticized or
attempted to control them.