Spectacles of Death in Ancient RomePsychology Press, 1998 - Всего страниц: 288 The elaborate and inventive slaughter of humans and animals in the arena fed an insatiable desire for violent spectacle among the Roman people. Donald G. Kyle combines the words of ancient authors with current scholarly research and cross-cultural perspectives, as he explores |
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Introduction violent spectacles and Roman civilization | 1 |
Ancient and modern attitudes | 2 |
Interpretations of Roman violence and spectacles | 7 |
the problem of disposal | 10 |
The phenomenon the development and diversity of Roman spectacles of death | 34 |
Festivals punishments celebrations and games | 35 |
rites and spectacles | 43 |
power proscriptions and multidimensional spectacles | 49 |
Arenas and eating corpses and carcasses as food? | 184 |
Hunting games and game | 187 |
spectators and scrambles | 190 |
America | 194 |
Rituals spectacles and the Tiber River | 213 |
punishment and purgation | 214 |
Executions and riots in the Forum | 217 |
Political violence and disposal by water | 220 |
summa supplicia and fatal charades | 53 |
The victims differentiation status and supply | 76 |
infamy virtue and ambivalence | 79 |
The doomed and the damned | 91 |
demand and supply | 95 |
Rituals and resources | 100 |
Death disposal and damnation of humans some methods and messages | 128 |
Death as a spectacle in some other premodern societies | 133 |
Disposal from Roman arenas some rituals and options | 155 |
burial pits exposure crucifixion fire | 159 |
Commodus the gladiator | 224 |
Christians persecutions and disposal | 242 |
passions procedures spectacles and disposal | 243 |
Lyons and disposal by water | 248 |
Relics and resurrection | 253 |
Conclusion hunts and homicides as spectacles of death | 265 |
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