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The Other Side of Conquest—Prisoners and Victims in the Roman Triumph

The Other Side of Conquest - Prisoners and Victims in the Roman Triumph

Mary Beard

4/18/09


Roman commentaries on triumphal processions suggest that the gaze of the audience was perilously hard to control. Dr. Mary Beard, University of Cambridge, England, offers a new perspective by concentrating on the defeated, from the not so simple facts of their number, identity, and ultimate fate to the moral complexities of their role in the culture of Roman triumph.

Part of The Boshell Foundation Lecture Series.


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