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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Donald G Kyle |
| ISBN: | 0415096782 9780415096782 0415248426 9780415248426 |
| OCLC Number: | 37890477 |
| Description: | xii, 288 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Violent spectacles and Roman civilization : Ancient and modern attitudes ; Interpretations of Roman violence and spectacles ; Somatics and necrology: the problem of disposal -- 2. The phenomenon: the development and diversity of Roman spectacles of death : Festivals, punishments, celebrations, and games ; Munera: rites and spectacles ; Late republic: power, proscriptions, and multi-dimensional spectacles ; Spectacular punishments: summa supplicia and 'fatal charades' -- 3. The victims: differentiation, status, and supply : The body count ; Gladiators and beast-fighters: infamy, virtue, and ambivalence ; Noxii: the doomed and the damned ; Law and the arena: demand and supply ; Rituals and resources -- 4. Death, disposal, and damnation of humans: some methods and messages : Roman death: rites and rights, hierarchy and the hereafter ; Death as a spectacle in some other pre-modern societies -- 5. Disposal from Roman arenas: some rituals and options : Rituals of death and removal ; Some options: burial, pits, exposure, crucifixion, fire -- 6. Arenas and eating: corpses and carcasses as food? : Ad bestias, consumption or abuse? ; Hunting, games, and game ; Spectacles and food: spectators and scrambles ; Addendum: America -- 7. Rituals, spectacles, and the Tiber River : Water: punishment and purgation ; Executions and riots in the Forum ; Political violence and disposal by water ; Commodus the gladiator -- 8. Christians: persecutions and disposal : Persecutions: passions, procedures, spectacles, and disposal ; Lyons and disposal by water ; Relics and resurrection -- 9. Hunts and homicides as spectacles of death. |
| Responsibility: | Donald G. Kyle. |
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