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Anecdote
Apathy
Apocolocyntosis
Apologeticus
Apuleius
Asceticism
Aulus Gellius
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Castration
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Catiline
Commodus
Cruelty
De Officiis
De Oratore
De rerum natura
Devotio
Disgust
Domitian
Epigram
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Farce
Freedman
Humiliation
Humour
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
Invidia
Irony
Juvenal
Literary topos
Literature
Livy
Lucretius
Martial
Misfortune (folk tale)
Moralia
Mount Holyoke College
Mutilation
Naturales quaestiones
Parable
Persius
Phenomenon
Plebs
Pliny the Younger
Plutarch
Priapus
Principate
Psychology
Publilius Syrus
Quintilian
Resentment
Richard Trexler
Ridicule
Sacramentum (oath)
Satire
Saturnalia
Satyricon
Seriousness
Slavery
Smith College
Suetonius
Suffering
Superiority (short story)
Tacitus
Tertullian
Thomas Habinek
Trajan
Trimalchio
Tristia
Vitellius
Warfare
Wild man
William Shakespeare
Product details
- ISBN 9780691010915
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 18 Dec 1995
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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."
Carlin A. Barton is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
