| Description |
1 online resource (409 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Publisher's Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Cultural Context and Origins of Gladiatorial Combat; Chapter 2 Recruitment and Training of Gladiators; Chapter 3 Gladiator Games in Action; Chapter 4 A Brief History of Gladiator Games; Chapter 5 A Brief History of the Arena Hunt; Chapter 6 The Roman Amphitheatre and the Colosseum; Chapter 7 Gladiators in Film; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
The games comprised gladiatorial fights, staged animal hunts (venationes) and the executions of convicted criminals and prisoners of war. Besides entertaining the crowd, the games delivered a powerful message of Roman power: as a reminder of the wars in which Rome had acquired its empire, the distant regions of its far-flung empire (from where they had obtained wild beasts for the venatio), and the inevitability of Roman justice for criminals and those foreigners who had dared to challenge the empire's authority. Though we might see these games as bloodthirsty, cruel and repre |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Gladiators -- Rome -- History
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Violence -- Rome -- History
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Gladiators
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Violence
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317905219 |
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1317905210 |
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