Death in ancient Rome/
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven ; London:
Yale University Press,
2007
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Dying a Roman death
- Dying for Rome : the glorious death of a commander
- Death as spectacle : looking at death in the arena
- Fighting the fear of death
- Defiance, complicity, and the politics of self-destruction
- Dying in character : stoicism and the Roman death scene
- Tasting death
- A feminine ending
- Laughing at death : Christian martyrdom.