Leisure and Ancient Rome / Edition 1

Leisure and Ancient Rome / Edition 1

by J. P. Toner
ISBN-10:
0745621988
ISBN-13:
9780745621982
Pub. Date:
10/15/1998
Publisher:
Polity Press
ISBN-10:
0745621988
ISBN-13:
9780745621982
Pub. Date:
10/15/1998
Publisher:
Polity Press
Leisure and Ancient Rome / Edition 1

Leisure and Ancient Rome / Edition 1

by J. P. Toner

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780745621982
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 10/15/1998
Edition description: Revised ed.
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

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.

Preface.

Texts and Abbreviations.

1. History, Leisure, and Ancient Rome.

2. Leisure.

3. Definitions.

4. Leisure and Otium. .

5. Blood, Swea, and Charioteers: The Imperial Games.

6. The Baths.

7. Goodbye to Gravitas: Popular Culture and Leisure.

8. Gambling.

9. Sex and the Problematization of Leisure.

10. Leisure and the Dialectic of Rome.

11. Epilogue: History, Historicism and Relativism.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.

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