Watching the Fighters : The Roman Fascination with Gladiators [videorecording] / [lecture by] Garrett G. Fagan ; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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Watching the Fighters : The Roman Fascination with Gladiators [videorecording] / [lecture by] Garrett G. Fagan ; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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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.

1 videodisc of 1 (DVD) (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

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The Getty Villa, located just off the Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades, California, operates as a museum and educational center dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria. The Getty Villa was designed to house J. Paul Getty's art collection when it outgrew his Ranch House, which had served as a private museum since 1954. After considering various options for expanding the Ranch House, Getty decided in the fall of 1968 to build a ne...

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