Spectacle entertainments of early imperial Rome / Richard C. Beacham.

"The presentations in the theater, gladiatorial combats, chariot races in the circus, animal hunts, triumphal processions, and other public entertainments of early imperial Rome served as tangible expressions of Roman ideology and power. This book describes these lavish spectacles, traces their...

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Main Author: Beacham, Richard C. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1999]
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505 0 |a Introduction -- The setup: public entertainments in the Late Republic -- Playing for power: the Age of the Dynasts -- The state craft and stagecraft of Augustus -- Playing for keeps: the politics of pageantry in the Early Principate -- Nero: no business but show business. 
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650 0 |a Popular culture  |x Political aspects  |z Rome  |x History. 
650 0 |a Processions  |x Political aspects  |z Rome  |x History. 
650 0 |a Pageants  |x Political aspects  |z Rome  |x History. 
650 0 |a Theater  |x Political aspects  |z Rome  |x History. 
651 0 |a Rome  |x History  |y Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D. 
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