Game of Death in Ancient Rome: Arena Sport and Political Suicide (Wisconsin Studies in Classics) - Tapa blanda

Paul Plass

 
9780299145743: Game of Death in Ancient Rome: Arena Sport and Political Suicide (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)

Sinopsis

Offering a reminder of the complex uses to which institutionalized violence can be put, this study shows how the deadly violence of arena sport and political suicide served a social purpose in ancient Rome.

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Reseña del editor

This book examines two forms of Roman institutional' violence: gladitorial combat and political suicide, attempting to explain and correlate the social and psychological significance of these phenomena.

Reseña del editor

Offering a reminder of the complex uses to which institutionalized violence can be put, this study shows how the deadly violence of arena sport and political suicide served a social purpose in ancient Rome.

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9780299145705: The Game of Death in Ancient Rome: Arena Sport and Political Suicide (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)

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ISBN 10:  0299145700 ISBN 13:  9780299145705
Editorial: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995
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