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Defeat in the Arena
Kathleen Coleman
James Loeb Professor of the Classics
Harvard University
In this lecture the surviving record (largely epigraphic,
but also pictorial) for evidence of the Roman attitude
towards defeat in gladiatorial combat is examined.
Greek and Roman culture was highly competitive. How, then,
did their culture accommodate defeat? This lecture
approaches the issue via a case-study of gladiatorial
combat, which spread rapidly from Rome throughout the
Empire, including the Greek-speaking areas of the eastern
Mediterranean.
Professor Coleman holds a Ph.D. from
Oxford University and has been a professor at Harvard
University since 1996. Her research interests include Latin
literature, especially Flavian poetry, history and culture
of the early Empire, arena spectacles, Roman punishment, and
reception of the Classics by the twentieth-century South
African poet, Douglas Livingstone.
Biography of the Speaker
7:30 P.M.
Monday,
February 27, 2017
Center for Science & Business 100 - Pattee Auditorium
Monmouth College,
Monmouth, Illinois
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