Emperors and Gladiators
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Funeral Games
funeral rites analysis
games
gladiatorial
Gladiatorial Combats
Gladiatorial Contests
Gladiatorial Displays
Gladiatorial Games
Gladiatorial Munera
Gladiatorial Shows
Gladiatorial Spectacle
Home Town
imperial sovereignty
Junius Blaesus
Lentulus Batiatus
Lex Aelia Sentia
Ludus Magnus
maximus
Munera Gladiatoria
Paullus Aemilius Lepidus
people
Professional Gladiators
Public Executions
religious symbolism
roman
Roman gladiator cultural transformation
Roman social history
Secular Games
Slave Gladiators
Vice Versa
Wild Beast Shows
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415000055
- Weight: 650g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 10 Dec 1992
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Dr. Tracey Ryan-Morgan is a HCPC Registered Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist, an Associate Fellow and Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society as well as a Chartered Scientist, a Regional Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and listed on the Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists. She has worked in the NHS, Charity and Independent sectors. Tracey has consulting rooms in Wales and London.
