Leisure and Ancient Rome

Jerry Toner studied Classics at Selwyn College, Cambridge and completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1993.

• List of Plates. Preface.Texts and Abbreviations.1. History, Leisure, and Ancient Rome.2. Leisure.3. Definitions.4. Leisure and Otium. .5. Blood, Swea, and Charioteers: The Imperial Games.6. The Baths.7. Goodbye to Gravitas: Popular Culture and Leisure.8. Gambling.9. Sex and the Problematization of Leisure.10. Leisure and the Dialectic of Rome.11. Epilogue: History, Historicism and Relativism.Notes.Bibliography.Index.

"Toner's book is at its best in discussing the leisure of the poor. Toner offers an illuminating study of the cultural significance of betting, with reference both to the circus and to other forms of gambling." The Classical Review