DIGIRENT - Spectacles of Empire: Monsters, Martyrs, and the Book of Revelation (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)
Christopher A. Frilingos
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Spectacles of Empire: Monsters, Christopher A. Frilingos epub Spectacles of Empire: Monsters, Christopher A. Frilingos pdf download Spectacles of Empire: Monsters, Christopher A. Frilingos pdf file Spectacles of Empire: Monsters, Christopher A. Frilingos audiobook Spectacles of Empire: Monsters, Christopher A. Frilingos book review Spectacles of Empire: Monsters, Christopher A. Frilingos summary | #2934124 in Books | University of Pennsylvania Press | 2004-09-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.56 x5.98l,.94 | File type: PDF | 192 pages | ||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Wonderous Strange|By Santi Tafarella|This is a great academic text about the Book of Revelation, but it is also a fascinating uncovering of Roman cultural curiosities. The author, for example, documents the importance of theatrical spectacle to imperial Rome, in which spectators gazed upon gladiator combats and the public display of monstrosities from other lands (such as exoti|||"An insightful, suggestive book that will reward students of Revelation as well as readers interested more generally in the literature and culture of imperial Rome."—Bryn Mawr Classical |About the Author|Chr
The book of Revelation presents a daunting picture of the destruction of the world, complete with clashing gods, a multiheaded beast, armies of heaven, and the final judgment of mankind. The bizarre conclusion to the New Testament is routinely cited as an example of the early Christian renunciation of the might and values of Rome. But Christopher A. Frilingos contends that Revelation's relationship to its ancient environment was a rather more complex one. In Specta...
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