[Shaun]

pretty much everything in the book is derived from Roman influence - the cornucopia for example was a festival for feasting, there's a whole range of Catos and the word capitol is from there

[Niall]

Originally Posted by Doogle

Definitely. I got that when I saw it.

And I was reading Catching Fire on the journey back and showed my friend

Spoiler:

the bit where the stylists are telling Katniss and Peeta to drink that liquid so they puke and can eat more food

and my friend told me that the Romans used to do that.

Oh yeah I knew about that too. It's pretty insane when you think that people actually did that.

Originally Posted by Shaun

pretty much everything in the book is derived from Roman influence - the cornucopia for example was a festival for feasting, there's a whole range of Catos and the word capitol is from there

It was that really, just the style of the Capitol and it's inhabitants. I think it was all the huge walkways and big stone buildings. And the music too, there were loads of Roman sounding horns I think.