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Emperors and Gladiators

Emperors and Gladiators Paperback - 1995

by Wiedemann, Thomas E.J

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NY: Routledge, 1995. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. 189pp+ index. Previous owner's ink name on front free endpaper, else Internally fine with clean text that has no underlining, highlighting or notes.
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  • Title Emperors and Gladiators
  • Author Wiedemann, Thomas E.J
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 232
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, NY
  • Date 1995
  • Features Glossary
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 31524
  • ISBN 9780415121644 / 0415121647
  • Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.61 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.55 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Italy
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92010519
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.8

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From the publisher

Of all aspects of Roman culture, the gladiatorial contests for which the Romans built their amphitheatres are at once the most fascinating and the most difficult for us to come to terms with. They have been seen variously as sacrifices to the gods or, at funerals, to the souls of the deceased; as a mechanism for introducing young Romans to the horrors of fighting; and as a direct substitute for warfare after the imposition of peace.
In this original and authoritative study, Thomas Wiedemann argues that gladiators were part of the mythical struggle of order and civilisation against the forces of nature, barbarism and law breaking, representing the possibility of a return to new life from the point of death; that Christian Romans rejected gladiatorial games not on humanitarian grounds, but because they were a rival representation of a possible resurrection.

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Gladiatorial contests, munera gladiatoria, hold a central place in modern popular perceptions of Roman behaviour.

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