Title: Game of Death in Ancient Rome: Arena Sport and Political Suicide (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication Date: 1998
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0299145743
ISBN 13: 9780299145743
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Fine

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This book examines two forms of Roman `institutional' violence:
gladitorial combat and political suicide, attempting to explain
and correlate the social and psychological significance of these
phenomena.

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Paul Plass is professor emeritus of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Wit and the Writing of History, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

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