Blood in the Arena : The Spectacle of Roman Power

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Blood in the Arena : The Spectacle of Roman Power

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 352 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780292725232
  • DDC分類 937

Full Description

From the center of Imperial Rome to the farthest reaches of ancient Britain, Gaul, and Spain, amphitheaters marked the landscape of the Western Roman Empire. Built to bring Roman institutions and the spectacle of Roman power to conquered peoples, many still remain as witnesses to the extent and control of the empire.

In this book, Alison Futrell explores the arena as a key social and political institution for binding Rome and its provinces. She begins with the origins of the gladiatorial contest and shows how it came to play an important role in restructuring Roman authority in the later Republic. She then traces the spread of amphitheaters across the Western Empire as a means of transmitting and maintaining Roman culture and control in the provinces.

Futrell also examines the larger implications of the arena as a venue for the ritualized mass slaughter of human beings, showing how the gladiatorial contest took on both religious and political overtones. This wide-ranging study, which draws insights from archaeology and anthropology, as well as Classics, broadens our understanding of the gladiatorial contest and its place within the highly politicized cult practice of the Roman Empire.

Contents

Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Beginnings

Campanian Gladiators
Etruscan Gladiators
Origines Gladiatorum
Early Spectacle in Rome
The Late Republic: Spectacle and Political Manipulation
The Imperial Games

II. A Scatter of Circles

The Iberian Peninsula
Britannia
The Northeastern Frontier
The Galliae

III. Order and Struggle: Cult in the Amphitheater

Imperial Cult
Celtic Cult
Nemesis

IV. The System of Construction

The Early Builders
Builders during the Empire
Management
Labor
Military Amphitheaters
Technology
Tickets and Seating

V. The Magic Ring: Human Sacrifice in the Arena

Patterns of Human Sacrifice
Human Sacrifice in Rome
The Ideology of Human Sacrifice

Conclusion
Appendix I. Amphitheaters and Central Place Theory
Appendix II. Pliny in Bithynia
Notes
Bibliography
Index