Title: Public Spectacles in Roman and Late Antique Palestine
            
                Revealing Antiquity
Description: Introduces readers to the panoply of public entertainment that flourished in Palestine from the first century BCE to the sixth century CE. Drawing on a trove of original archaeological and textual evidence, Zeev Weiss reconstructs an ancient world where Romans, Jews, and Christians intermixed amid a heady brew of shouts, roars, and applause to watch a variety of typically pagan spectacles.
Subjects: Popular culture, middle east, Palestine, social life and customs, Palestine, antiquities, Palestine, history, Ethnology, italy, Entertainment events, History, Popular culture, Social life and customs, Romans, Roman Antiquities, Antiquities