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Endings and new beginnings
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Bomgardner, David |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Description | This chapter traces the final examples of the amphitheatre (Salona, Bordeaux, Thysdrus and the Anfiteatro Castrense in Rome) and its eventual decline and fall as a spectacle building. Next the various factors (philosophical opposition, Christian religious reaction, imperial political sanctions, empire-wide economic decline and constriction of networks of supply, and the ecological dwindling of numbers of animals) leading to the gradual evolution and finally the end of the gladiatorial, and later the animal, spectacles of the empire are analysed. The final phases of reuse and spoliation of these amphitheatres is outlined. Included in this analysis is a conjecture that the numbers of wild animals dwindled in North Africa because of a systemic policy of maximization of agricultural productivity that destroyed the natural habitat needed for indigenous animal species. Such changes produced dramatic impacts upon the nature of the venationes. Now hard to source animals were no longer dispatched in the arena, but the human performers were now in danger of harm by the animals, including many routines familiar to modern-day rodeo shows. Book Name: The Story of the Roman Amphitheatre |
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| Ending Page | 389 |
| Page Count | 45 |
| Starting Page | 345 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315724577-5 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2021-02-02 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: The Story of the Roman Amphitheatre History Evolution Africa Animals Decline Amphitheatre Dwindled Christian Religious Spectacle Building |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
