9780140299342

Gladiators

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ISBN13: 9780140299342

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Overview

The Roman Empire produced countless achievements in the arts, literature, philosophy, law and government, without which much of our civilization today would not exist. Yet at it's heart was also unbelievable cruelty, epitomized by the bloody history of the gladiators: human beings set in an arena to fight to the death, watched by crowds of thousands. Gladiators is an introduction to understanding this disturbing and brutal phenomenon. The bloodthirsty spectacle of gladiatorial combat has inspired countless films and fictions, yet here Michael Grant shows that the truth is no less strange and savage. He tells us who the gladiators were, how they fought and died, how they were idolized by their public and feared by emperors, and how the most barbaric blood sport ever invented finally came to an end.

ISBN-13

9780140299342

ISBN-10

0140299343

Weight

0.18 Pounds

Dimensions

4.33 x 0.35 x 7.09 In

List Price

$6.35

Format

Paperback

Pages

125 pages

Publisher

Penguin Books

Published On

2000-06-01



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