The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans: The Gladiator and the Monster

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Princeton University Press, 6 d’oct. 2020 - 224 pàgines

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."

 

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Introduction
3
THE GLADIATOR
11
Desire
47
THE MONSTER
77
THREE
85
Envy Part One
107
FIVE
145
Conclusions
176
MODERN WORKS CITED
191
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Sobre l'autor (2020)

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

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