KP141 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Spree, Leptis Magna, Wild Beasts
6 Dec 2017
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Roman spectators: strict division between participant and spectator, all classes, men and women. Religious outrage: new religious sect condemns the spectacles as pagan: christians. Roman spectators: highlight the power of the spectacle to curry favour, political power ows from harnessing the emotions of the roman population, use of spectacle to entertain, distant and assure the populace. What you need to know: anatomy of roman culture. Why do romans do sport di erently: roman sport spectacle. How does this re ect or project culture: the stadia. What can architecture teach us: roman and sport and the state. 5th century bce: building spree, political, spiritual, commercial, parthenon. Sparta: collection of villages, never a cultural centre. Stadia: revel to us the importance of sport in a society. Greek stadia: not purposed for spectators, rudimentary seating along an embankment. A stadium of banked earth, as typical in greece" pausanias: no formal seating arrangement. The roman stadia: romans mock greek concepts of athletics.
