Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome Kyle Donald G.
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. Kyle combines the words of ancient authors…
Specifikacia Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome Kyle Donald G.
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. Kyle combines the words of ancient authors with current scholarly research and cross-cultural perspectives, as he exploresthe origins and historical development of the gameswho the victims were and why they were chosenhow the Romans disposed of the thousands of resulting corpsesthe complex religious and ritual aspects of institutionalised violencethe 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