=== Beginnings at the
Rheinisches Landesmuseum === The event "Brot und Spiele" took place for the first time on 12 and 13 July 1997. Under the motto "Brot und Spiele – Antikes (Er)leben im Amphitheater", the
Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier organised a large campaign weekend as part of the
Rhineland-Palatinate cultural summer event series, which presented an ancient
arena spectacle according to scientific findings. On 12 July 1997, Roman legionnaires of Legio XXII Primigenia and Legio VIII Augusta entered through the
Porta Nigra and then into the Trier
amphitheater. There they reenacted scenes from the storming of the city wall, as they probably happened in
Trier in AD 187. ==References==