The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans: The Gladiator and the Monster (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans 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.
Full description- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Published: 28 November 1995
- Format: Paperback 224 pages
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- Categories: Social, Group Or Collective Psychology | European History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Social & Cultural History
- ISBN 13: 9780691010915 ISBN 10: 0691010919
- Sales rank: 1,315,315
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Full description for The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans
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.'
