Leisure and Ancient RomeISBN: 978-0-7456-2198-2
Paperback
208 pages
October 1998, Polity
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List of Plates.
Preface.
Texts and Abbreviations.
1. History, Leisure, and Ancient Rome.
2. Leisure.
3. Definitions.
4. Leisure and Otium. .
5. Blood, Swea, and Charioteers: The Imperial Games.
6. The Baths.
7. Goodbye to Gravitas: Popular Culture and Leisure.
8. Gambling.
9. Sex and the Problematization of Leisure.
10. Leisure and the Dialectic of Rome.
11. Epilogue: History, Historicism and Relativism.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.