TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weiss,Zeev
TI  - Public spectacles in Roman and late antique Palestine /Zeev Weiss
T2  - Revealing antiquity
SN  - 9780674726628
AV  - GV31 .P835 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Entertainment events
KW  - Palestine
KW  - History
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Romans
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; The beginning : the introduction of public spectacles and competitions into ancient Palestine --; Shaping the city's landscape : buildings for mass entertainment in their urban context --; Entertaining the crowds : performances, competitions, and shows --; Financing, organization, and operation --; Adopting a novelty : Jewish attitudes toward Roman spectacles and competitions --; Public spectacles and socio-cultural behavior in late antique Palestine; 2; b
N2  - 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
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