Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome,9780415248426

Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome

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ISBN13: 9780415248426
ISBN10: 0415248426
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-01-26
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

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. Kylecombines the words of ancient authors with current scholarly research and cross-cultural perspectives, as he explores * the origins and historical development of the games * who the victims were and why they were chosen * how the Romans disposed of the thousands of resulting corpses * the complex religious and ritual aspects of institutionalised violence * the particularly savage treatment given to defiant Christians. This lively and original work provides compelling, sometimes controversial perspectives on the bloody entertainments of ancient Rome, which continue to fascinate us to this day.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
vii
Preface ix
Introduction: violent spectacles and Roman civilization
1(33)
Ancient and modern attitudes
2(5)
Interpretations of Roman violence and spectacles
7(3)
Somatics and necrology: the problem of disposal
10(24)
The phenomenon: the development and diversity of Roman spectacles of death
34(42)
Festivals, punishments, celebrations, and games
35(8)
Munera: rites and spectacles
43(6)
Late Republic: power, proscriptions, and multi-dimensional spectacles
49(4)
Spectacular punishments: summa supplicia and `fatal charades'
53(23)
The victims: differentiation, status, and supply
76(52)
The body count
76(3)
Gladiators and beast-fighters: infamy, virtue, and ambivalence
79(12)
Noxii: the doomed and the damned
91(4)
Law and the arena: demand and supply
95(5)
Rituals and resources
100(28)
Death, disposal, and damnation of humans: some methods and messages
128(27)
Roman death: rites and rights, hierarchy and the hereafter
128(5)
Death as a spectacle in some other pre-modern societies
133(22)
Disposal from Roman arenas: some rituals and options
155(29)
Rituals of death and removal
155(4)
Some options: burial, pits, exposure, crucifixion, fire
159(25)
Arenas and eating: corpses and carcasses as food?
184(29)
Ad bestias - consumption or abuse?
184(3)
Hunting, games, and game
187(3)
Spectacles and food: spectators and scrambles
190(4)
Addendum: America
194(19)
Rituals, spectacles, and the Tiber River
213(29)
Water: punishment and purgation
214(3)
Executions and riots in the Forum
217(3)
Political violence and disposal by water
220(4)
Commodus the gladiator
224(18)
Christians: persecutions and disposal
242(23)
Persecutions: passions, procedures, spectacles, and disposal
243(5)
Lyons and disposal by water
248(5)
Relics and resurrection
253(12)
Conclusion: hunts and homicides as spectacles of death
265(7)
References 272(10)
Index 282

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