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Leisure and Ancient Rome

ISBN: 978-0-7456-2198-2
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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.

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