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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b7480842.
- catalog coverage "Rome Politics and government.".
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-271) and indexes.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Public spectacles as broken routine -- Games and liminoid ritual -- Gladiatorial combat -- Extravagant expenditure, conspicuous consumption -- Sociology of public violence -- Social anomaly and public violence -- Political violence and suicide -- Poltitical game rules -- The tactics of political suicide -- Political anomaly and suicide.".
- catalog extent "xi, 283 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Game of death in ancient Rome.".
- catalog identifier "0299145700".
- catalog isFormatOf "Game of death in ancient Rome.".
- catalog isPartOf "Wisconsin studies in classics".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press,".
- catalog relation "Game of death in ancient Rome.".
- catalog spatial "Rome Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "Rome".
- catalog spatial "Rome.".
- catalog subject "796/.0937/6 20".
- catalog subject "GV31 .P53 1995".
- catalog subject "Games Rome History.".
- catalog subject "Suicide Rome.".
- catalog subject "Violence in sports Rome.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Public spectacles as broken routine -- Games and liminoid ritual -- Gladiatorial combat -- Extravagant expenditure, conspicuous consumption -- Sociology of public violence -- Social anomaly and public violence -- Political violence and suicide -- Poltitical game rules -- The tactics of political suicide -- Political anomaly and suicide.".
- catalog title "The game of death in ancient Rome : arena sport and political suicide / Paul Plass.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".