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100 1  Plass, Paul,|d1933-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       n87871638 
245 14 The game of death in ancient Rome :|barena sport and 
       political suicide /|cPaul Plass. 
264  1 Madison, Wis. :|bUniversity of Wisconsin Press,|c[1995] 
264  4 |c©1995 
300    xi, 283 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Wisconsin studies in classics 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-271) and 
       indexes. 
505 0  Public spectacles as broken routine -- Games and liminoid 
       ritual -- Gladiatorial combat -- Extravagant expenditure, 
       conspicuous consumption -- Sociology of public violence --
       Social anomaly and public violence -- Political violence 
       and suicide -- Poltitical game rules -- The tactics of 
       political suicide -- Political anomaly and suicide. 
520    Our taste for blood sport stops short at the bruising 
       clash of football players or the gloved blows of boxers, 
       and the suicide of a politician is no more than a personal
       tragedy. What, then, are we to make of the ancient Romans,
       for whom the meaning of sport and politics often depended 
       on death? In this provocative, deeply thoughtful book, 
       Paul Plass shows how the deadly violence of arena sport 
       and political suicide served a social purpose in ancient 
       Rome. His work offers a reminder of the complex uses to 
       which institutionalized violence can be put. 
561    Gift of Dr. James H. Poivan, Professor of History, 
       Emeritus. 
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650  7 Politics and government.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/
       fast/1919741 
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       authorities/subjects/sh85115178 
651  7 Rome (Empire)|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204885 
653 0  Combat sports 
653 0  Roman Empire 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aPlass, Paul, 1933-|tGame of death in 
       ancient Rome.|dMadison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin 
       Press, c1995|w(OCoLC)630869316 
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