The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans : : The Gladiator and the Monster / / Carlin A. Barton.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1993
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 2 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction
  • THE GLADIATOR
  • THE MONSTER
  • MODERN WORKS CITED
  • INDEX