Cruelty and civilization
Subtitle: The Roman games
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books
Published: 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780760709276
Subjects: Circus; Games; Gladiators; Rome; Social life and customs
First sentence: The gladiatorial combats first appeared in Rome long after the Circus games, in 264 B.C., as a funerary rite reserved to the aristocracy.