| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 361 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Revealing antiquity ; 21
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Revealing antiquity ; 21.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The beginning : the introduction of public spectacles and competitions into ancient Palestine -- Shaping the city's landscape : buildings for mass entertainment in their urban context -- Entertaining the crowds : performances, competitions, and shows -- Financing, organization, and operation -- Adopting a novelty : Jewish attitudes toward Roman spectacles and competitions -- Public spectacles and socio-cultural behavior in late antique Palestine. |
| Summary |
Introduces readers to the panoply of public entertainment that flourished in Palestine from the first century BCE to the sixth century CE. Drawing on a trove of original archaeological and textual evidence, Zeev Weiss reconstructs an ancient world where Romans, Jews, and Christians intermixed amid a heady brew of shouts, roars, and applause to watch a variety of typically pagan spectacles. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Entertainment events -- Palestine -- History.
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Entertainment events. |
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History. |
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Popular culture -- Palestine -- History.
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Popular culture. |
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Palestine -- Social life and customs.
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Romans -- Palestine.
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Romans. |
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Palestine -- Antiquities, Roman.
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Palestine -- Antiquities.
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Palestine -- History -- To 70 A.D.
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Palestine -- History -- 70-638.
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| Chronological Term |
To 638 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Weiss, Zeev, 1959- Public spectacles in Roman and late antique Palestine. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014 9780674048317 (DLC) 2013027086 (OCoLC)861478255 |
| ISBN |
9780674726628 (electronic book) |
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0674726626 (electronic book) |
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9780674048317 |
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0674048318 |
| Standard No. |
10.4159/harvard.9780674726628 |
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