Author: Ferris, Iain

Source: Journal of Conflict Archaeology, Volume 1, Number 1, 2005 , pp. 67-92(26)

Publisher: Maney Publishing

Abstract:

In this paper, two striking representations of screaming or shouting male barbarians, one on the Column of Marcus Aurelius in Rome and the other on the Pannonian tombstone of the Roman legionary C. Septimus, are analysed and discussed in detail. These two disturbing and provocative images of suffering are situated in the broader context of institutionalised violence in Roman society, as reflected in certain kinds of judicial punishments and in the games in the arena, and of depictions of pain and suffering in other contexts, both ancient and modern.

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157407705774929033

Publication date: 2005-11-01

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