Leisure and Ancient Rome: Old Images, New Visions 0745621988, 9780745621982
By exploring the nature and role of leisure, Toner offers a new way of looking at Roman society at all levels, not just
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Table of contents :
List of Plates
Preface
Texts and Abbreviations
1. History, Leisure, and Ancient Rome
2. Leisure
3. Definitions'
4. Leisure and 'Otium'
5. Blood, Sweat, 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
