The sorrows of the ancient Romans : the gladiator and the monster
(2020)
Nonfiction
eBook
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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Princeton University Press, 2020
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1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780691219677 MWT15462536, 0691219672 15462536
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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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