The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans

The Gladiator and the Monster

Carlin A. Barton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

1995
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-01091-5 (ISBN)

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An inquiry into the collective psychology of the ancient Romans that speaks not about military conquest, sober law, and practical politics, but about extremes of despair, desire, and envy. This title makes us uncomfortably familiar with a society struggling at or beyond the limits of human endurance.

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."

Carlin A. Barton is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction3The Gladiator1Despair11The Scandal of the Arena112Desire47Wine without Water47The Monster3Fascination85A Vain, Barren, Exquisite Wasting854Envy (Part One)107Embracing the Monster1075Envy (Part Two)145Striking the Monster1456Conclusions176The Widening Gyre176Modern Works Cited191Index203

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.12.1995
Zusatzinfo	2 halftones
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	197 x 254 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
ISBN-10	0-691-01091-9 / 0691010919
ISBN-13	978-0-691-01091-5 / 9780691010915
Zustand	Neuware