Author(s):
Siobhán McElduff
Description:
This is a collection of primary sources on Roman games and spectacles in their various forms, created for CLST 260. The sources are grouped thematically, although there is overlap between the sections. The sources come from a wide range of periods, genres, and individuals and not all are equally reliable, in that many reports on things they haven’t seen or are (like some of the Christian authors) deeply hostile to because they were often connected with the worship of various pagan deities. But taken together, along with the images and other information provided, they will give some picture of the importance and complexity of spectacle for the Romans and many of the peoples they conquered or interacted with. Footnotes are used to provide information and context for those that know little about either Rome or the ancient Mediterranean.
Item Type:
Textbook
Subject:
Humanities
Faculty/Department:
Faculty of Arts, Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies
License Type:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Audience:
Undergraduate Lower Division
Technical Format:
Website/HTML, EPUB, PDF, MOBI
Language:
English
Persistent Identifier:
ISBN: 978-0-88865-459-5
Development Location:
UBC Vancouver
Keywords:
c 500 BCE to c 1500 CE, Ancient Roman Games, Ancient Roman Spectacles, Ancient Roman Life, Ancient Rome
