Description
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the Roman amphitheater as a key social and political institution for binding Rome and its provinces.
Trade Review. . . bring[s] fresh perspectives to the study of the Roman amphitheater, situating the Roman arena within a larger cross-cultural framework of human sacrifice and providing important insights into the psychological dimensions of these public spectacles for the Roman viewer. * Classical World *
Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. Beginnings
- Campanian Gladiators
- Etruscan Gladiators
- Origines Gladiatorum
- Early Spectacle in Rome
- The Late Republic: Spectacle and Political Manipulation
- The Imperial Games
- II. A Scatter of Circles
- The Iberian Peninsula
- Britannia
- The Northeastern Frontier
- The Galliae
- III. Order and Struggle: Cult in the Amphitheater
- Imperial Cult
- Celtic Cult
- Nemesis
- IV. The System of Construction
- The Early Builders
- Builders during the Empire
- Management
- Labor
- Military Amphitheaters
- Technology
- Tickets and Seating
- V. The Magic Ring: Human Sacrifice in the Arena
- Patterns of Human Sacrifice
- Human Sacrifice in Rome
- The Ideology of Human Sacrifice
- Conclusion
- Appendix I. Amphitheaters and Central Place Theory
- Appendix II. Pliny in Bithynia
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
