The Roman Games Historical Sources In Translation

Author : Alison Futrell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405153156
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Games written by Alison Futrell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sourcebook presents a wealth of material relating to everyaspect of Roman spectacles, especially gladiatorial combat andchariot racing. Draws on the words of eye-witnesses and participants, as wellas depictions of the games in mosaics and other works of art. Offers snapshots of “a day at the games” and“the life of a gladiator”. Includes numerous illustrations. Covers chariot-races, water pageants, naval battles and wildanimal fights, as well as gladiatorial combat. Combines political, social, religious and archaeologicalperspectives. Facilitates an in-depth understanding of this important featureof ancient life.

Author : Alison Futrell
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781444336061
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Games written by Alison Futrell and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary R. Lefkowitz
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801844751
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Life in Greece & Rome written by Mary R. Lefkowitz and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly acclaimed collection provides a unique look into the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women of all social classes-from wet nurses, prostitutes, and gladiatrixes to poets, musicians, intellectuals, priestesses, and housewives. The third edition adds new texts to sections throughout the book, vividly describing women's sentiments and circumstances through readings on love, bereavement, and friendship, as well as property rights, breast cancer, female circumcision, and women's roles in ancient religions, including Christianity and pagan cults.

Author : Charles H. Stocking
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192607626
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Greek Athletics written by Charles H. Stocking and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-25 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ancient Greek Athletics offers the most comprehensive collection to date of primary sources in translation for the study of ancient Greek athletics. Because Greek athletics was such an essential feature of both Greek and Roman culture, there is an especially strong need for proper treatment and understanding of the texts and other media used to reconstruct practices and ideologies of ancient athletics. The sources in this collection are arranged chronologically from the Archaic Period to the Roman Imperial Era, with an extensive appendix discussing key themes and topics. The organization and in-depth presentation of textual sources is designed to help students, scholars, and general readers fully appreciate the broader social and cultural significance of ancient Greek athletics as it developed in different historical time periods throughout antiquity.

Author : M. M. Austin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521296663
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the Roman Conquest written by M. M. Austin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1981-10-22 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive sourcebook in English concentrating entirely on the Hellenistic age.

Author : Mary Beard
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631494104
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World written by Mary Beard and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Best Books of 2023: New Yorker, The Economist, Smithsonian Most Anticipated Books of Fall: Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, TODAY, Literary Hub, and Publishers Weekly "A vivid way to re-examine what we know, and don’t, about life at the top.... Emperor of Rome is a masterly group portrait, an invitation to think skeptically but not contemptuously of a familiar civilization." —Kyle Harper, Wall Street Journal A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most famous classicist” (Guardian). In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby Iron Age origins to its reign as the undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean. Now, drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and writing about Roman history, Beard turns to the emperors who ruled the Roman Empire, beginning with Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) and taking us through the nearly three centuries—and some thirty emperors—that separate him from the boy-king Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE). Yet Emperor of Rome is not your typical chronological account of Roman rulers, one emperor after another: the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Instead, Beard asks different, often larger and more probing questions: What power did emperors actually have? Was the Roman palace really so bloodstained? What kind of jokes did Augustus tell? And for that matter, what really happened, for example, between the emperor Hadrian and his beloved Antinous? Effortlessly combining the epic with the quotidian, Beard tracks the emperor down at home, at the races, on his travels, even on his way to heaven. Along the way, Beard explores Roman fictions of imperial power, overturning many of the assumptions that we hold as gospel, not the least of them the perception that emperors one and all were orchestrators of extreme brutality and cruelty. Here Beard introduces us to the emperor’s wives and lovers, rivals and slaves, court jesters and soldiers, and the ordinary people who pressed begging letters into his hand—whose chamber pot disputes were adjudicated by Augustus, and whose budgets were approved by Vespasian, himself the son of a tax collector. With its finely nuanced portrayal of sex, class, and politics, Emperor of Rome goes directly to the heart of Roman fantasies (and our own) about what it was to be Roman at its richest, most luxurious, most extreme, most powerful, and most deadly, offering an account of Roman history as it has never been presented before.

Author : Garrett G. Fagan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521196167
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lure of the Arena written by Garrett G. Fagan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Were the Romans who watched brutal gladiatorial games all that different from us? This book argues they were not.

Author : Fik Meijer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312364021
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gladiators written by Fik Meijer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the lives of ancient Rome's gladiators explores how they were both despised and hero-worshiped, chronicling how tens of thousands of gladiators perished publicly over the course of six hundred years.

Author : Abigail Graham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351005561
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romans written by Abigail Graham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romans: An Introduction is a concise, readable and comprehensive survey of the Roman world, which explores 1,200 years of political, military and cultural history alongside religion, social pressures, literature, art and architecture. This new edition includes updated and revised materials designed to develop analytical skills in literary and material evidence, evoking themes that resonate in both ancient and modern societies: fake news, class struggles, urbanization, concepts of race and gender, imperialism, constitutional power and religious intolerance. The fourth edition incorporates a number of new features and evolving fields: A new chapter on provinces, provincial administration and acculturation in the Roman Empire. An extended chapter on Christianity and Rome’s legacy with new case studies in the reception of Roman culture. An extended chapter on Roman society and daily life, including recent scholarship on gender and race in the ancient world. Integrated use of text and material evidence which is designed to develop analytical skills in critical source assessment. The book’s successful Open Access website updated to include new case studies on emerging topics such as performance politics, religious syncretism, media sensationalism and cultural heritage. Thoroughly updated and redeveloped, this new edition of The Romans will continue to serve as the definitive introduction to the life, history and culture of the Roman world, from its foundation to its significance to later civilizations.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004510516
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Intellectual Climate of Cassius Dio written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the intellectual and political contexts that produced Cassius Dio's (c. 160–c. 230 CE) massive and indispensable synthesis of Roman history. Contributors examine the literary influences, cultural identity and political ideologies of this much read but enigmatic author.