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Author:

Welch, Katherine E.

Title:

The Roman amphitheatre : from its origins to the Colosseum / Katherine E. Welch.

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2009, c2007

Description:

xxii, 355 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, plans ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Amphitheaters--Rome.
Architecture and society--Rome.
Colosseum (Rome, Italy)

Notes:

Originally published: 2007. "First paperback edition 2009"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-350) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : The 'imperial' interpretation of arena games -- 1. Arena games during the Republic : Origins of gladiator combat ; The Osco-Samnite hypothesis ; The Etruscan hypothesis ; Gladiatorial games during the Republican period ; The Venatio and Damnatio ad Bestias in the Republic period ; Other forms of the death penalty ; The arena and the Roman army -- 2. Origins of amphitheatre architecture : The setting of gladiatorial games at Rome during the Republic: the Forum Boarium and Forum Romanum ; Evidence for spectator arrangements in the Forum Romanum in the Republican period ; The middle Republic ; The late Republic ; The shape and form of the seating construction ("Spectacula") in the Forum Romanum ; Constructional aspects of the Spectacula in the Forum Romanum -- 3. Stone amphitheatres in the Republic period : THe amphitheatre and Sullan Colony at Pompeii ; Army training and gladiatorial combat: 105 BC and after ; Geographical distribution and dating of Republican amphitheatres ; The Ludi of Capua ; The transition from wood to stone ; The amphitheatre and campus at Pompeii -- 4. The amphitheatre between Republic and Empire: monumentalization of the building type : Decoration of the façades of early-Imperial amphitheatres: the Tuscan order ; A higher order of killing: Statilius Taurus and Rome's first stone amphitheatre -- The Colosseum: canonization of the amphitheatre building type : the innovation of the Colosseum's façade: Greek architectural orders and sculptural decoration ; Cultural repertoire of amphitheatre games under the Empire: 'fabulous' executions ; The Colosseum and Nero's Domus Aurea -- Reception of the amphitheatre in the Greek world in the early Imperial period : Athens ; Corinth -- Conclusion -- Appendix : Amphitheaters of Republican date : Architectural characteristics of Republican amphitheatres ; Republican amphitheatres in Italy ; Republican amphitheatres outside Italy.

ISBN:

0521744350 (pbk.)
9780521744355 (pbk.)
0521809444 (hbk.)
9780521809443 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)277068593

Locations:

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)