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The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans : The Gladiator and the Monster / Carlin A. Barton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) : 2 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691219677
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 937 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- THE GLADIATOR -- THE MONSTER -- MODERN WORKS CITED -- INDEX
Summary: 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."
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780691219677

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- THE GLADIATOR -- THE MONSTER -- MODERN WORKS CITED -- INDEX

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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.

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