Emperors and Gladiators (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Emperors and Gladiators Wiedemann presents an original and comprehensive study of the changing significance of gladiatoral contests to Roman culture.
Full description- Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
- Published: 01 August 1995
- Format: Paperback 218 pages
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- Categories: Anthropology | European History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
- ISBN 13: 9780415121644 ISBN 10: 0415121647
- Sales rank: 1,067,921
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Full description for Emperors and Gladiators
Of all aspects of Roman culture, the gladiatorial contests for which the Romans built their amphitheatres are at once the most fascinating and the most difficult for us to come to terms with. They have been seen variously as sacrifices to the gods or, at funerals, to the souls of the deceased; as a mechanism for introducing young Romans to the horrors of fighting; and as a direct substitute for warfare after the imposition of peace. In this original and authoritative study, Thomas Wiedemann argues that gladiators were part of the mythical struggle of order and civilisation against the forces of nature, barbarism and law breaking, representing the possibility of a return to new life from the point of death; that Christian Romans rejected gladiatorial games not on humanitarian grounds, but because they were a rival representation of a possible resurrection.
