What did Augustus do to change the entertainment?

Answer 1

Augustus did not do much to change Roman entertainment. Chariot races had been an entertainment since the early days of Rome. New games for religious festivals had been introduced in the Late Republic. Roman theatre started to develop from the 3rd century BC. Julius Caesar had already introduced the greatest innovation in Roman entertainment; the switching of the gladiatorial combats from private funerary rituals to public games.

What Augustus did was to revive games of archaic religious festivals which had decayed. He also resumed the Secular Games (originally they were called Ludi Terentini and were renamed Ludi Saeculares) which had been suspended during the civil wars. These were three days and nights of sacrifices and theatrical performances, to mark the end of a saeculum and the beginning of the next. A saeculum is a length of time roughly equal to the potential lifetime of a person or the equivalent of the complete renewal of a human population. During the reign of Augustus, tit was set at 110 years