The Game of Death in Ancient Rome: Arena Sport and Political Suicide (Wisconsin Studies in Classics) - Softcover

Paul Plass

 
9780299145743: The Game of Death in Ancient Rome: Arena Sport and Political Suicide (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)

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Offering a reminder of the complex uses to which institutionalized violence can be put, this study shows how the deadly violence of arena sport and political suicide served a social purpose in ancient Rome.

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Paul Plass is professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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ISBN 10:  0299145700 ISBN 13:  9780299145705
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995
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