Roman and Greek literature offers dramatic accounts of games to honour or propitiate the spirits of the dead. Very similar episodes are depicted on the walls of elite tombs in Etruria, and Campania; some appear to show combats to the death. The first such "ludi funebres" in Rome were given in 264 BC, during the war against Carthage; three pairs of gladiators fought to the death at the pyre of Brutus Pera, in what was described as a "munus" (pl. "munera"), a duty owed to an ancestor by his descendants – in this case, his son, Decimus Junius Brutus Scaeva. A feast was provided for friends and family. Thereafter, similar "gladiatora munera" became a core event at elite Roman funeral games. In the late Republic, a "munus" held for the funeral of the ex-consul and Pontifex Maximus Publius Licinius in 183 BC involved 120 gladiators fighting over 3 days, public distribution of meat ("visceratio data") and the crowding of the forum with dining couches and tents as venue for the feast.