The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans : The Gladiator and the Monster /
Barton, Carlin A.
The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans : The Gladiator and the Monster / Carlin A. Barton. - 1 online resource (224 p.) : 2 halftones
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- THE GLADIATOR -- THE MONSTER -- MODERN WORKS CITED -- INDEX
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
This inquiry into the collective psychology of the ancient Romans speaks not about military conquest, sober law, and practical politics, but about extremes of despair, desire, and envy. Carlin Barton makes us uncomfortably familiar with a society struggling at or beyond the limits of human endurance. To probe the tensions of the Roman world in the period from the first century b.c.e. through the first two centuries c.e., Barton picks two images: the gladiator and the "monster."
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691219677
10.1515/9780691219677 doi
National characteristics, Roman.
HISTORY / Ancient / Rome.
Saturnalia. absolute, the. actor or acting. apathy. asceticism. audience. banquet. boredom. cannibalism. castration. civil war. decadence. deformity. deprivation. emotion. envy. equality. fascination. flattery. frustration. generosity. hierarchy. homeopathy. humiliation. imitation. indignation. inversions. liberality. license. mimesis. monster. novelty. obscenity. paradox. pharmakon. portent. reciprocity. ridicule. sacredness. slavery. suffering. theatre. unnatural. variety. venenum. violence. wasting.
937
The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans : The Gladiator and the Monster / Carlin A. Barton. - 1 online resource (224 p.) : 2 halftones
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- THE GLADIATOR -- THE MONSTER -- MODERN WORKS CITED -- INDEX
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
This inquiry into the collective psychology of the ancient Romans speaks not about military conquest, sober law, and practical politics, but about extremes of despair, desire, and envy. Carlin Barton makes us uncomfortably familiar with a society struggling at or beyond the limits of human endurance. To probe the tensions of the Roman world in the period from the first century b.c.e. through the first two centuries c.e., Barton picks two images: the gladiator and the "monster."
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691219677
10.1515/9780691219677 doi
National characteristics, Roman.
HISTORY / Ancient / Rome.
Saturnalia. absolute, the. actor or acting. apathy. asceticism. audience. banquet. boredom. cannibalism. castration. civil war. decadence. deformity. deprivation. emotion. envy. equality. fascination. flattery. frustration. generosity. hierarchy. homeopathy. humiliation. imitation. indignation. inversions. liberality. license. mimesis. monster. novelty. obscenity. paradox. pharmakon. portent. reciprocity. ridicule. sacredness. slavery. suffering. theatre. unnatural. variety. venenum. violence. wasting.
937