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Gladiators and Caesars
Author | : Eckart Köhne,Cornelia Ewigleben,Ralph Jackson |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0520227980 |
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Describes the events and games held in the amphitheaters, cicuses, and theaters in ancient Rome.
Gory Gladiators Savage Centurions and Caesar s Sticky End
Author | : Kay Barnham |
Publsiher | : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP |
Total Pages | : 107 |
Release | : 2015-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781482431155 |
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Because the Roman Army was so large, they had to be very serious about punishing those who broke the rules. For disobeying an order, a soldier would get as many as 200 lashes with a whip. And deserters? They were stoned or beaten to death. These penalties sound harsh in today’s world, but they can tell readers a lot about life during the Roman Empire! Dreadful deaths and creative killings offer a unique lens through which to examine a major historical period. Cute, full-color illustrations offer a humorous look at a bleak topic and add interesting details.
The Age of the Gladiators
Author | : Rupert Matthews |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Games |
ISBN | : 1841931853 |
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Gladiators 4th 1st centuries BC
Author | : Francois Gilbert |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 2022-08-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781472850904 |
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This new study lifts the veil on the high-profile but often misunderstood gladiators of ancient Rome, from their origins to the dawn of the Principate. Originating in funeral rites during the Punic Wars of the 3rd century BC, the Roman gladiator games have come to symbolize the spectacle and savagery of Republican and Imperial Rome. Increasingly elaborate rules and rituals governed the conduct of gladiator combat, with an array of specially armed and armoured gladiator types pitted against one another, either singly or in groups. While many gladiators met a grisly end, some survived to achieve celebrity and make huge fortunes. Despite the wealth of literary and archaeological evidence, many misconceptions about the gladiators and their violent world remain. Featuring eight plates of stunning specially commissioned artwork alongside photographs and drawings of key items of visual evidence, this fully illustrated account recreates the little-known and under-represented gladiators of the centuries leading up to the dawn of the Principate, correcting myths and casting new light on the roles, lives and legacy of these legendary arena fighters.
Spartacus
Author | : Rob Shone |
Publsiher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 2005-01-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1404202404 |
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This book describes the fighting of Spartacus and his slave army in their rebellion against the Romans.
Gladiators
Author | : M.C. Bishop |
Publsiher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2017-09-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781612005140 |
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A concise history of ancient Roman gladiators—how they lived, fought, and died in the Colosseum—by the archeologist, author, and Roman military expert. Heroic despite their lowly status, the gladiators of ancient Rome fought vicious duels in large arenas filled with baying crowds. Few lasted more than a dozen fights, yet they were a valuable asset to their owners. Gladiators reveals the fascinating history of these men, how they fought, and how their weapons and techniques developed—debunking myths along the way. Historian M. C. Bishop examines the different forms of gladiator combat, including simulated naval battles held on large artificial lakes. He also discusses how gladiators were carefully paired against each other to balance their strengths and weaknesses. Although their lives were brutal and short, gladiators were the celebrities of their day, admired for their bravery. This short history reveals what we know about the gladiators and how we know it: ancient remains, contemporary literature, graffiti, modern attempts to reconstruct ancient fighting techniques, and the astonishing discovery at Pompeii where a complete gladiator barracks was found alongside multiple skeletons, telling their story.
Gladiators
Author | : Rachael Hanel |
Publsiher | : The Creative Company |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2007-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1583415351 |
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Discusses how gladiators fought not for land, wealth, or treasure, but to entertain the masses.
The Worlding Project
Author | : Christopher Leigh Connery,Rob Wilson |
Publsiher | : North Atlantic Books |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2007-10-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1556436807 |
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Globalization discourse now presumes that the “world space” is entirely at the mercy of market norms and forms promulgated by reactionary U.S. policies. An academic but accessible set of studies, this wide range of essays by noted scholars challenges this paradigm with diverse and strong arguments. Taking on topics that range from the medieval Mediterranean to contemporary Jamaican music, from Hong Kong martial arts cinema to Taiwanese politics, writers such as David Palumbo-Liu, Meaghan Morris, James Clifford, and others use innovative cultural studies to challenge the globalization narrative with a new and trenchant tactic called “worlding.” The book posits that world literature, cultural studies, and disciplinary practices must be “worlded” into expressions from disparate critical angles of vision, multiple frameworks, and field practices as yet emerging or unidentified. This opens up a major rethinking of historical “givens” from Rob Wilson’s reinvention of “The White Surfer Dude” to Sharon Kinoshita’s “Deprovincializing the Middle Ages.” Building on the work of cultural critics like Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, and Kenneth Burke, The Worlding Project is an important manifesto that aims to redefine the aesthetics and politics of postcolonial globalization withalternative forms and frames of global becoming.