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Plass, Paul

 
9780299145705: The Game of Death in Ancient Rome: Arena Sport and Political Suicide

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Our taste for blood sport stops short at the bruising clash of football players or the gloved blows of boxers, and the suicide of a politician is no more than a personal tragedy. What, then, are we to make of the ancient Romans, for whom the meaning of sport and politics often depended on death? In this provocative, deeply thoughtful book, Paul Plass shows how the deadly violence of arena sport and political suicide served a social purpose in ancient Rome. His work offers a reminder of the complex uses to which institutionalized violence can be put.

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

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9780299145743: The Game of Death in Ancient Rome: Arena Sport and Political Suicide

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ISBN 10:  0299145743 ISBN 13:  9780299145743
Casa editrice: Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 1998
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