Spirits of the dead : Roman funerary commemoration in Western Europe /

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"Spirits of the Dead examines the importance attached to preserving the memory of the dead in the Roman world, and explores the ways in which funerary inscriptions can be used to reconstruct Roman lives, however fragmentarily and imperfectly. It is the only study to examine epigraphic, historic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carroll, Maureen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Colección:Oxford studies in ancient documents.
Temas:
Sepulchral monuments > Rome.
Epitaphs > Rome.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Rome.
Épitaphes > Rome.
HISTORY > Ancient.
Classical antiquities
Epitaphs
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Manners and customs
Sepulchral monuments
Social conditions
Europe, Western > Antiquities, Roman.
Rome > Social life and customs.
Rome > Social conditions.
Rome > Conditions sociales.
Europe de l'Ouest > Antiquités romaines.
Western Europe
Rome (Empire)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Memory and commemoration
  • Anonymity, violation, and memory loss
  • Selecting a monument
  • Conveying a message
  • Causes of death
  • Family and household
  • Mapping population movement
  • Social mobility and social change
  • Death on earth, life in heaven.

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