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The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans: The Gladiator and the Monster

By Carlin A. Barton

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9780691219677
DOI
10.1515/9780691219677
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (24867878 bytes)
Pages
224\224
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-07-23 21:08:32

Description

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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