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Death and Burial in the Roman World

Death and Burial in the Roman World
Author: J. M. C. Toynbee
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 1996-10-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801855078

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The most comprehensive book on Roman burial practices—now available in paperback Never before available in paperback, J. M. C. Toynbee's study is the most comprehensive book on Roman burial practices. Ranging throughout the Roman world from Rome to Pompeii, Britain to Jerusalem—Toynbee's book examines funeral practices from a wide variety of perspectives. First, Toynbee examines Roman beliefs about death and the afterlife, revealing that few Romans believed in the Elysian Fields of poetic invention. She then describes the rituals associated with burial and mourning: commemorative meals at the gravesite were common, with some tombs having built-in kitchens and rooms where family could stay overnight. Toynbee also includes descriptions of the layout and finances of cemeteries, the tomb types of both the rich and poor, and the types of grave markers and monuments as well as tomb furnishings.


Death in Ancient Rome

Death in Ancient Rome
Author: Valerie Hope
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2007-11-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134323093

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Presenting a wide range of relevant, translated texts on death, burial and commemoration in the Roman world,this book is organized thematically and supported by discussion of recent scholarship. The breadth of material included ensures that this sourcebook will shed light on the way death was thought about and dealt with in Roman society.


The Archaeology of Death in Roman Syria

The Archaeology of Death in Roman Syria
Author: Lidewijde de Jong
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2017-07-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107131413

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This book sheds new light on funerary customs in Roman Syria, offering a novel way of understanding its provincial culture.


Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome

Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome
Author: Donald G. Kyle
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134862725

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The elaborate and inventive slaughter of humans and animals in the arena fed an insatiable desire for violent spectacle among the Roman people. Donald G. Kyle combines the words of ancient authors with current scholarly research and cross-cultural perspectives, as he explores * the origins and historical development of the games * who the victims were and why they were chosen * how the Romans disposed of the thousands of resulting corpses * the complex religious and ritual aspects of institutionalised violence * the particularly savage treatment given to defiant Christians. This lively and original work provides compelling, sometimes controversial, perspectives on the bloody entertainments of ancient Rome, which continue to fascinate us to this day.


Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity

Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity
Author: Ian Morris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1992-10-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521376112

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In this innovative book Dr Morris seeks to show the many ways in which the excavated remains of burials can and should be a major source of evidence for social historians of the ancient Graeco-Roman world. Burials have a far wider geographical and social range than the surviving literary texts, which were mainly written for a small elite. They provide us with unique insights into how Greeks and Romans constituted and interpreted their own communities. In particular, burials enable the historian to study social change. Ian Morris illustrates the great potential of the material in these respects with examples drawn from societies as diverse in time, space and political context as archaic Rhodes, classical Athens, early imperial Rome and the last days of the western Roman empire.


The Transformation of the Roman World AD 400-900

The Transformation of the Roman World AD 400-900
Author: Leslie Webster
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 1997
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520210608

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Book accompanies 5 exhibitions. Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-255) and index.


Memory and Mourning

Memory and Mourning
Author: Valerie M. Hope
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Architecture and society
ISBN: 9781842179901

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This volume challenges boundaries between traditional academic disciplines and utilizes current approaches in Scholarship. It-highlights how death was interwoven with Roman life and brings together diverse evidence such is poetry, oratory, portraiture, epigraphy, and funerary monuments. These chapters individually and collectively demonstrate the significance of studying the evidence for Roman death and death rituals, and how concerns for memory and mourning both shaped and were reflected in that evidence. --Book Jacket.


Death and Burial in the Roman World

Death and Burial in the Roman World
Author: Jocelyn M. C. Toynbee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1971
Genre: Funeral rites and ceremonies
ISBN: 9780500400159

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Death as a Process

Death as a Process
Author: John Pearce
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Burial
ISBN: 9781785703232

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Wide ranging exploration of how archaeological evidence for death and burial in the Roman world can illustrate process and ritual sequence, from laying out the dead to the pyre and tomb, and from placing the dead in the earth to the return of the living to commemorate them.