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Spectacle entertainments of early imperial Rome /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beacham, Richard C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1999]
Subjects:
Entertainment events > Political aspects > Rome > History.
Popular culture > Political aspects > Rome > History.
Processions > Political aspects > Rome > History.
Pageants > Political aspects > Rome > History.
Theater > Political aspects > Rome > History.
Power (Social sciences) > Rome.
Spectacular, The.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.