Memory and mourning : studies on Roman death /

This book explores the themes of memory and mourning from the Roman deathbed to the Roman cemetery, drawing subject matter from the literature, art, and archaeology of ancient Rome. It brings together scholarship on varied aspects of Roman death, investigating connections between ancient poetry, his...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hope, Valerie M., 1968-, Huskinson, Janet
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Oakville, Conn. : Oxbow Books, ©2011.
Temas:
Death > Social aspects > Rome > History.
Memory > Social aspects > Rome > History.
Mourning customs > Rome > History.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Rome > History.
Death in literature.
Latin literature > History and criticism.
Death in art.
Architecture and society > Rome > History.
Mort > Aspect social > Rome > Histoire.
Deuil > Coutumes > Rome > Histoire.
Mort dans la littérature.
Littérature latine > Histoire et critique.
Mort dans l'art.
Architecture et société > Rome > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
HISTORY > Ancient > Rome.
Antiquities
Architecture and society
Death in art
Death in literature
Death > Social aspects
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Latin literature
Manners and customs
Memory > Social aspects
Mourning customs
History.
Rome > Social life and customs.
Rome > Antiquities.
Rome > Antiquités.
Rome (Empire)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Goodbye, Livia" : dying in the Roman home / David Noy
  • Memory and materiality : re-embodying the Roman funeral / Emma-Jayne Graham
  • Gender and Roman funeral ritual / Darja Šterbenc Erker
  • Death Ritual and burial practice in the Latin love elegists / Luke B.T. Houghton
  • "The sole glory of death" : dying and commemoration in Dionysius of Halicarnassus / Clemence Schultze
  • "Causa ante mortua est quam tu natus es" : aspects of the funeral in Cicero's Pro rabirio perduellionis reo / Eleanor Brooke
  • Bad deaths, better memories / Janet Huskinson
  • "The mourning was very good" : liberation and liberality in Roman funerary commemoration / Maureen Carroll
  • Poetic monuments : grief and consolation in Statius Silvae 3.3 / Jean-Michel Hulls
  • Remembering to mourn : personal mementos of the dead in ancient Rome / Valerie M. Hope.

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