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Watching the Fighters: The Roman Fascination with Gladiators

Watching the Fighters: The Roman Fascination with Gladiators at Auditorium in The Getty Villa


Classicist Garrett G. Fagan of Penn State University explores the characteristics of gladiatorial combat and investigates the psychological dynamics at work in drawing people to watch violence as spectacle.

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