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Article: Spectacle Entertainments of Early Imperial Rome.(Review)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2001
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Spectacle Entertainments of Early Imperial Rome. By Richard C. Beacham. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 306. $35.00.)
During the reign of Augustus, one Greek provincial was so overwhelmed by the magnificent buildings at Rome that he readily thought of a stage set: "the view was irresistible." This visitor's analogy is the starting point for Richard Beacham's excellent account of the public spectacles at Rome during the late Republic and the reigns of the Julio-Claudian emperors. In his interpretation (and despite his book's title), these spectacles were not merely entertainments for the city's residents. In the absence of mass media, ...
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