Blood in the Arena: The Spectacle of Roman Power
Autor Alison Futrellen Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2001
In this book, Alison Futrell explores the arena as a key social and political institution for binding Rome and its provinces. She begins with the origins of the gladiatorial contest and shows how it came to play an important role in restructuring Roman authority in the later Republic. She then traces the spread of amphitheaters across the Western Empire as a means of transmitting and maintaining Roman culture and control in the provinces.
Futrell also examines the larger implications of the arena as a venue for the ritualized mass slaughter of human beings, showing how the gladiatorial contest took on both religious and political overtones. This wide-ranging study, which draws insights from archaeology and anthropology, as well as Classics, broadens our understanding of the gladiatorial contest and its place within the highly politicized cult practice of the Roman Empire.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780292725232
ISBN-10: 029272523X
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 27 b&w photographs, 9 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
ISBN-10: 029272523X
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 27 b&w photographs, 9 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Notă biografică
Alison Futrell is an associate professor of history at the University of Arizona.
Cuprins
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. Beginnings
- Campanian Gladiators
- Etruscan Gladiators
- Origines Gladiatorum
- Early Spectacle in Rome
- The Late Republic: Spectacle and Political Manipulation
- The Imperial Games
- II. A Scatter of Circles
- The Iberian Peninsula
- Britannia
- The Northeastern Frontier
- The Galliae
- III. Order and Struggle: Cult in the Amphitheater
- Imperial Cult
- Celtic Cult
- Nemesis
- IV. The System of Construction
- The Early Builders
- Builders during the Empire
- Management
- Labor
- Military Amphitheaters
- Technology
- Tickets and Seating
- V. The Magic Ring: Human Sacrifice in the Arena
- Patterns of Human Sacrifice
- Human Sacrifice in Rome
- The Ideology of Human Sacrifice
- Conclusion
- Appendix I. Amphitheaters and Central Place Theory
- Appendix II. Pliny in Bithynia
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Recenzii
. . . bring[s] fresh perspectives to the study of the Roman amphitheater, situating the Roman arena within a larger cross-cultural framework of human sacrifice and providing important insights into the psychological dimensions of these public spectacles for the Roman viewer.
Descriere
An exploration of the Roman amphitheater as a key social and political institution for binding Rome and its provinces.