The Pompa Circensis from the Late Republic to Late Antiquity
by
Jacob A. Latham
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
The pompa circensis, the procession which preceded the chariot races in the arena, was both a prominent political pageant and a hallowed religious ritual. Traversing a landscape of memory, the procession wove together spaces and institutions, monuments and performers, gods and humans into an image...