books.google.co.uk - Our taste for blood sport stops short at the bruising clash of football players or the gloved blows of boxers, and the suicide of a politician is no more than a personal tragedy. What, then, are we to make of the ancient Romans, for whom the meaning of sport and politics often depended on death? In this...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_game_of_death_in_Ancient_Rome.html?id=O2VxRfd68F4C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe game of death in Ancient Rome
