LEISURE ANTIQUITY IN THE CONTEXT OF ENTERTAINMENT CULTURE: GLADIATORIAL GAMES

Authors

  • Olena M. Goncharova doctor of cultural study, associate professor, Kievan national university of culture and arts, chief of department of history of Ukraine and museology, Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32461/2226-3209.2.2015.138375

Keywords:

leisure, spectacular culture, gladiator games, antiquity

Abstract

The article presents the analysis of leisure in the context of spectacular ancient culture gladiatorial games based on ancient literary reflection of the work of historians, philosophers, poets, writers and orators of ancient Greece and Rome. Based on the study, the author found the transformation of leisure as a social and humanitarian experience of ancient society, established the nature and content of the gladiatorial games as a form of mass entertainment antiquity. The author described the moral aspects of gladiatorial games in the context of spectacular culture of antiquity.

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Published

2016-08-25

Issue

No. 2 (2015)

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