Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1998
Type: BOOK
... spectacles in principle . However , as in Ep . 95.33 , he was critical of executions that amounted to mere slaughter , which offered no positive diversion or inspi- ration to virtue . For Seneca , 42 : ' Death in the arena should be ...
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-06-01
Type: BOOK
... spectacles, and argues that public responses to such spectacles are fundamentally shaped by past struggles and social movements. Collective memories, or shared understandings of the past, help to structure contemporary social identities ...
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2010
Type: BOOK
... spectacles . When taken up by Vitagraph in 1903 , they were " films of a full reel or more , running fifteen to twenty minutes in length , either based on ' fairy plays ' like Puss - in - Boots and Fairyland or on historical subjects ...
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2001-01-01
Type: BOOK
... Spectacles. Tertullian, a Christian writer of the second century AD, is concerned with what attitude Christians should take to Roman sports and spectacles. His book On Spectacles includes a description of what the spectacles were and ...
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2004-10-06
Type: BOOK
... spectacles in the third century than of Quintillian's efforts to present himself as a self-mastered man, superior to Pionius.80 This section will examine the attitudes and meanings associated with the violent spectacles ofancient Rome ...
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-05-04
Type: BOOK
... spectacles of social and cultural conflict . Produced by academics from a broad range of disciplines , Media Spectacles suggests how our watching ourselves in the media , and how our watching the media itself , might be related to ...
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010-05
Type: BOOK
... spectacles" covers all types of spectacle put on in these locations, including gladiatorial combat, beast displays, aquatic spectacles, and spectacular forms of public execution. Some of these spectacles were also staged elsewhere—for ...
Publisher: NUS Press
Published: 2006
Type: BOOK
... spectacle was a clear reflection of colonial relations . The tribute it appeared to pay to indigenous ( in this case ... spectacles presents an ambivalent picture . Some visitors came away more convinced than ever of the greater progress ...
Publisher:
Published: 1977
Type: BOOK
... Spectacles . " A review of the detailed tests procedures is , therefore , not necessary for those familiar with the earlier report . However , the reader may wish to read the new sections describing the haze and penetration tests . A ...
Publisher:
Published: 1819
Type: BOOK
... Spectacles , peculiarly convenient for oc- casional reading , do . Spectacles for couched eyes . Gogglets , or Shade Spectacles , for warm climates . Best double jointed steel Spectacles , round and oval eyes . Do. single jointed Do. do ...
