Alison Futrell

Blood in the Arena

The Spectacle of Roman Power

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing insights from archaeology and anthropology as well as Classics, this book broadens our understanding of the gladiatorial contest and its place within the highly politicised cult practice of the Roman Empire. The author explores the arena as a key social and political institution for binding Rome and its provinces.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9780292725232
• ISBN-10: 029272523X
• Artikelnr.: 21585972

Autorenporträt

By Alison Futrell

Inhaltsangabe

1. Abbreviations
2. Acknowledgments
3. Introduction
4. I. Beginnings
* Campanian Gladiators
* Etruscan Gladiators
* Origines Gladiatorum
* Early Spectacle in Rome
* The Late Republic: Spectacle and Political Manipulation
* The Imperial Games
5. II. A Scatter of Circles
* The Iberian Peninsula
* Britannia
* The Northeastern Frontier
* The Galliae
6. III. Order and Struggle: Cult in the Amphitheater
* Imperial Cult
* Celtic Cult
* Nemesis
7. IV. The System of Construction
* The Early Builders
* Builders during the Empire
* Management
* Labor
* Military Amphitheaters
* Technology
* Tickets and Seating
8. V. The Magic Ring: Human Sacrifice in the Arena
* Patterns of Human Sacrifice
* Human Sacrifice in Rome
* The Ideology of Human Sacrifice
9. Conclusion
10. Appendix I. Amphitheaters and Central Place Theory
11. Appendix II. Pliny in Bithynia
12. Notes
13. Bibliography
14. Index