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9780745621982

Leisure and Ancient Rome

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  • ISBN13:

    9780745621982

  • ISBN10:

    0745621988

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-10-15
  • Publisher: Polity
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Summary

In this book Toner offers a new way of looking at Roman society at all levels, not just among the elite, by examining the imperial games and the baths as well as gambling, the taverns, theatre and carnivals.

Author Biography

Jerry Toner studied Classics at Selwyn College, Cambridge and completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1993.

Table of Contents

List of Plates
vi
Preface viii
Texts and Abbreviations ix
History, Leisure, and Ancient Rome
1(10)
Leisure
11(6)
Definitions
17(5)
Leisure and Otium
22(12)
Blood, Sweat, and Charioteers: The Imperial Games
34(19)
The Baths
53(12)
Goodbye to Gravitas: Popular Culture and Leisure
65(24)
Gambling
89(13)
Sex and the Problematization of Leisure
102(15)
Leisure and the Dialectic of Rome
117(11)
Epilogue: History, Historicism, and Relativism
128(12)
Notes 140(35)
Bibliography 175(22)
Index 197

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