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Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Nº de ref. del artículo: GOR001177718
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Librería: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Reino Unido
Condición: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Nº de ref. del artículo: wbs1972103971
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Librería: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, Reino Unido
Condición: Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Nº de ref. del artículo: 38770233-20
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Librería: Neusser Buch & Kunst Antiquariat, Neuss, NRW, Alemania
0. 192 S. zahlr. Ill. Or.-Leinen, m. illustr. Buchumschlag. Buch im guten Zustand, Buchumschl. m. kl. Rissen u. a. Buchrü. gering ausgebl., John Pearson Sprache: Deutschu 0,900 gr. Nº de ref. del artículo: 20696BB
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Librería: Laura Books, Georgetown, SA, Australia
Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. First Edition. library marks endpapers, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ: edge wear, library sticker spine. Due to weight extra may apply to any quoted international postage Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex Library. Nº de ref. del artículo: 037952
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Librería: Barclay Books, York, WA, Australia
Hardback. In the Year AD 80 the Colosseum opened with quite the longest and most nauseating organized mass orgy in history. It was a mammoth celebration on the grandest scale, a fitting inauguration for an arena built to epitomize all the majesty and power of the Roman Empire, a building which also held the seeds of that Empire's decay and destruction.As well as his vivid account of the erection of the Colosseum, Mr Pearson discusses the origins of death spectacles and their evolution into highly organized games intended to enhance imperial prestige and provide the populace with an effective substitute for politics and war. 'Butchered to make a Roman holiday', the victims of this lust for slaughter were slaves and criminals, the human surplus of their day, coached for an almost certain death. One chapter highlights the perverted death-wish of many early would-be martyrs and decisively establishes that there is no evidence for the death of a single Christian martyr in the Colosseum.The book concludes with a brief survey of the building's subsequent history; looted and despoiled yet still the embodiment of Rome's spirit and greatness, it became a sublime romantic ruin, now exposed by slum-clearance as a gigantic traffic island. Mr Pearson is acutely aware of the violence that was endemic in Roman society, and in his shrewd analysis he draws disturbing parallels with the twentieth-century situation. 1973. First edition. A very good copy only marked by light rubbing to the board edges and light age tanning to the edges of the text block. The d/w is unclipped and near fine with only light edge rubbing. Nº de ref. del artículo: 10878320
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