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Subject(s)

• Theater—Rome—History [Browse]
• Entertainment events—Rome—History [Browse]
• Popular culture—Rome [Browse]
• Theater in art [Browse]
• Spectacular, The, in art [Browse]
• Art, Roman—Themes, motives [Browse]
• Art and society—Rome [Browse]

Series

• Cornell studies in classical philology. Townsend lectures [More in this series]
• Townsend lectures/Cornell studies in classical philology

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-306) and indexes.

Contents

• Setting the scene
• Greek festivals in the Roman world
• The traditional theatre
• Pantomime and mythological spectacle
• Mime and popular entertainment
• The circus races
• The amphitheatre : gladiators and wild beast hunts
• The games in a Christian empire.

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ISBN

• 9780801454059 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
• 0801454050 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
• 9780801456886 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
• 0801456886 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2016004414

OCLC

937062149

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