Leisure and Ancient Rome: Old Images, New Visions Paperback - 1998
by J. P. Toner
This book provides a fascinating look at the nature and role of leisure in ancient Roman society. The book examines the imperial games and the baths, as well as the forms of leisure associated with popular culture, such as gambling, the taverns, theatre, and carnivals.
From the rear cover
What role did leisure play in the life of ancient Rome? For us in the modern world, leisure is secondary to work. But in ancient Rome leisure was central to social life and an integral part of its history.
By exploring the nature and role of leisure, Toner offers a new way of looking at Roman society at all levels, not just among the elite. He examines the imperial games and the baths, as well as the forms of leisure associated with popular culture, such as gambling, the taverns, theatre and carnivals. He shows how these activities, while central to the imperial programme, were also a focus of tension between social classes and between traditionalist and modern elements in Roman culture. Despite its popularity, gambling, for instance, was the target of fierce moral condemnation which was concerned, above all, with notions of how social status should be acquired.
Informed by the work of anthropologists and sociologists as well as historians, this highly innovative book also represents a significant contribution to what Marc Bloch called "a more human history", that is, to history understood as a dialogue between us and the past.
Leisure and Ancient Rome will be of particular interest to students and scholars of ancient history, classics, cultural history and the sociology and anthropology of culture.
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- Title Leisure and Ancient Rome: Old Images, New Visions
- Author J. P. Toner
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Paperback Ed
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press, CAMBRIDGE
- Date 1998-10-15
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780745621982 / 0745621988
- Weight 0.71 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.99 x 5.95 x 0.63 in (22.83 x 15.11 x 1.60 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Italy
- Library of Congress subjects Rome - Social life and customs, Leisure - Social aspects - Rome
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95016182
- Dewey Decimal Code 306
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