Mayhem
Subtitle: Violence As Public Entertainment
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Published: April 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780201489798
First sentence: No people before or since have so reveled in displays of mortal combat as did the Romans during the last two centuries B.C. and the first three centuries thereafter, nor derived such pleasure from spectacles in which slaves and convicts were exposed to wild beasts and killed in front of cheering spectators.