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The Hunger Games
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The Hunger Games

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A resourceful teen takes her younger sister’s place in a brutal contest in which youths from each of 12 districts fight to the death on live television.

What it is made of

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Gods, Monsters and Meanders

The archaic gorgoneion seen head-on: tongue out, fangs, snakes knotted at the belt. Unicursal labyrinths from coinage, square and circular, and the meander fret that spawns them. Plus a very specific repertoire of scenes: the eagle at Prometheus's liver, Cerberus with two heads rather than three, Charon leaning on the pole of his boat, the spindle and the cut thread of the Moirai, the frontal owl with its crescent moon and the letters ΑΘΕ, the laurel crown and the fluted Doric shaft with no base.

Rome and the Arena

Smooth, rounded secutor helmets with two minute holes for the eyes; Thracian helmets topped with a griffin crest and a Medusa on the brow; greaves engraved with Jupiter, Neptune and Minerva; the retiarius's net and trident; the curved sica; the manica of leather wound round the arm. Around them, the oval of the amphitheatre seen from above, the hypogeum lying open like a honeycomb. And the lettering: beside each gladiator's name on the mosaics, a VICIT or a mark of death.

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