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Published by Thames and Hudson, 1973
ISBN 10: 0500250383ISBN 13: 9780500250389
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Thames and Hudson, 1973
ISBN 10: 0500250383ISBN 13: 9780500250389
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Published by Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1973
ISBN 10: 0500250383ISBN 13: 9780500250389
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
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Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.
Published by Thames & Hudson, 1973
ISBN 10: 0500250383ISBN 13: 9780500250389
Seller: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United Kingdom
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Condition: Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Published by London Thames & Hudson, 1973
ISBN 10: 0500250383ISBN 13: 9780500250389
Seller: Neusser Buch & Kunst Antiquariat, Neuss, NRW, Germany
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0. 192 S. zahlr. Ill. Or.-Leinen, m. illustr. Buchumschlag. Buch im guten Zustand, Buchumschl. m. kl. Rissen u. a. Buchrü. gering ausgebl., John Pearson Sprache: Deutschu 0,900 gr.
Published by Thames & Hudson, 1973
ISBN 10: 0500250383ISBN 13: 9780500250389
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Hardback. In the Year AD 80 the Colosseum opened with quite the longest and most nauseating organized mass orgy in history. It was a mammoth celebration on the grandest scale, a fitting inauguration for an arena built to epitomize all the majesty and power of the Roman Empire, a building which also held the seeds of that Empire's decay and destruction.As well as his vivid account of the erection of the Colosseum, Mr Pearson discusses the origins of death spectacles and their evolution into highly organized games intended to enhance imperial prestige and provide the populace with an effective substitute for politics and war. 'Butchered to make a Roman holiday', the victims of this lust for slaughter were slaves and criminals, the human surplus of their day, coached for an almost certain death. One chapter highlights the perverted death-wish of many early would-be martyrs and decisively establishes that there is no evidence for the death of a single Christian martyr in the Colosseum.The book concludes with a brief survey of the building's subsequent history; looted and despoiled yet still the embodiment of Rome's spirit and greatness, it became a sublime romantic ruin, now exposed by slum-clearance as a gigantic traffic island. Mr Pearson is acutely aware of the violence that was endemic in Roman society, and in his shrewd analysis he draws disturbing parallels with the twentieth-century situation. 1973. First edition. A very good copy only marked by light rubbing to the board edges and light age tanning to the edges of the text block. The d/w is unclipped and near fine with only light edge rubbing.