Those About to Die

completely fictitious, polar bears were seen in the arena, pos­sibly as early as Nero's reign. The Romans did believe that the narwhal's horn was that of a unicorn. The narwhal, being a mammal like a whale or porpoise, can produce ivory.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Darstellungen aus der Sittengeschichte Roms, L. Friedlander Animals for Show and Pleasure in Ancient Rome,

George Jennison The Spectacles, Martial

The Remains of Ancient Rome, J. H. Middleton

Trebaid, Stattus

Historia Ecclesiastica, Eusebius

Martyr's Mirror, Thielem von Bracht

Acts of the Martyrs, P. I. Twisck

Pompeii, Thomas H. Dyer

Philip and Alexander of Macedon, David G. Hogarth

Les Gladiateurs dans l'orient Grec, Louis Robert

Roping, Bernard Mason

Fighting Sports, Capt. L. Fitz-Barnard

The Satyricon, Petronius

The Memoirs of Diocles

And the writings of Tacitus, Suetonius, Apuleius

Fiction

I, Claudius and Claudius the God, Robert Graves

Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz

Confessors of the Name, Gladys Schmitt (Mainly the martyrdom of the Christians)

Ben Hur, Lew Wallace (The famous chariot race is very accurate) The Gladiators,

Arthur Koestler (The Spartacus Rebellion)

Androcles and the Lion, Bernard Shaw (Humorous but accurate)