Leisure and Ancient Rome

In this book Toner offers a new way of looking at Roman society at all levels, not just among the elite, by examining the imperial games and the baths as well as gambling, the taverns, theatre and carnivals.

Jerry Toner studied Classics at Selwyn College, Cambridge and completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1993.

List of Plates

vi

Preface

viii

Texts and Abbreviations

ix

History, Leisure, and Ancient Rome

1

(10)

Leisure

11

(6)

Definitions

17

(5)

Leisure and Otium

22

(12)

Blood, Sweat, and Charioteers: The Imperial Games

34

(19)

The Baths

53

(12)

Goodbye to Gravitas: Popular Culture and Leisure

65

(24)

Gambling

89

(13)

Sex and the Problematization of Leisure

102

(15)

Leisure and the Dialectic of Rome

117

(11)

Epilogue: History, Historicism, and Relativism

128

(12)

Notes

140

(35)

Bibliography

175

(22)

Index

197

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Leisure and Ancient Rome

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