The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans

ISBN: 9780691010915

出版社: Princeton Univ Pr

出版年: 1995-11

页数: 224

定价: $ 45.14

装帧: Pap

内容简介

This inquiry into the collective psychology of the ancient Romans speaks not about military conquest, sober law, and practical politics, but about extremes of despair, desire, and envy. Carlin Barton makes us uncomfortably familiar with a society struggling at or beyond the limits of human endurance. To probe the tensions of the Roman world in the period from the first century b.c.e. through the first two centuries c.e., Barton picks two images: the gladiator and the 'monster.'