Blood in the arena: the spectacle of Roman power

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. Beginnings

Campanian gladiators

Etruscan gladiators

Origines Gladiatorum

Early spectacle in Rome

Late Republic: spectacle and political manipulation

Imperial games

II. Scatter of circles

Iberian Peninsula

Britannia

Northeastern frontier

Galliae

III. Order and struggle

Cult in the amphitheater

Imperial cult

Celtic cult

Nemesis

IV. System of construction

Early builders

Builders during the Empire

Management

Labor

Military amphitheaters

Technology

Tickets and seating

V. Magic ring

Human sacrifice in the arena

Patterns of human sacrifice

Human sacrifice in Rome

Ideology of human sacrifice

Conclusion

Appendix I. Amphitheaters and central place theory

Appendix II. Pliny in Bithynia

Notes, Bibliography, Index.