title: Staging the World: Spoils, Captives, and Representations in the Roman Triumphal Procession (Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture & Representation)
author: Ida Ostenberg
description: <br /><strong>Ida Ostenberg</strong> is Assistant Professor, Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg.<br />
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  Rome, September, AD 44
  
  Also by Robert Fabbri
  
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  ROME, SEPTEMBER, AD 44
  
  PITILESS WAS THE roar that greeted the condemned as they were herded, naked,
  onto the arena sand. Pleading for their lives – or at least for another mode
  of death – the ragged formation clung to one another; the whiplashes of the
  overseers rained down upon men and women alike, forcing them out into the open
  and, at the same time, drawing blood from their shredded backs that would
  inflame the hunger of the beasts waiting below the Flaminian Circus on the
  Campus Martius.
  
  A few final cracks of supple leather across the shoulders and haunches of the
  rearmost were enough to make them clear the line of the gates, which were then
  drawn closed as the overseers darted back inside. The fifty-thousand-strong
  crowd raised their volume even more as they toyed with themselves and
  salivated at the prospect of the coming slaughter.
  
  In their midst, in the imperial box, 