TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barton,Carlin A.
TI  - The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans: The Gladiator and the Monster 
SN  - 9780691219677
U1  - 937 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - National characteristics, Roman
KW  - HISTORY / Ancient / Rome
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Saturnalia
KW  - absolute, the
KW  - actor or acting
KW  - apathy
KW  - asceticism
KW  - audience
KW  - banquet
KW  - boredom
KW  - cannibalism
KW  - castration
KW  - civil war
KW  - decadence
KW  - deformity
KW  - deprivation
KW  - emotion
KW  - envy
KW  - equality
KW  - fascination
KW  - flattery
KW  - frustration
KW  - generosity
KW  - hierarchy
KW  - homeopathy
KW  - humiliation
KW  - imitation
KW  - indignation
KW  - inversions
KW  - liberality
KW  - license
KW  - mimesis
KW  - monster
KW  - novelty
KW  - obscenity
KW  - paradox
KW  - pharmakon
KW  - portent
KW  - reciprocity
KW  - ridicule
KW  - sacredness
KW  - slavery
KW  - suffering
KW  - theatre
KW  - unnatural
KW  - variety
KW  - venenum
KW  - violence
KW  - wasting
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; Introduction --; THE GLADIATOR --; THE MONSTER --; MODERN WORKS CITED --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - 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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