The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans: The Gladiator and the Monster

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."

Author: Carlin A. Barton
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 12/18/1995
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.23h x 6.13w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780691010915

About the Author
Carlin A. Barton is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.