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"In Reading Death in Ancient Rome, Mario Erasmo considers both actual funerary rituals and their literary depictions in epic, elegy, epitaphs, drama, and prose works as a form of participatory theater in which the performers and the depicters of rituals engage in strategies to involve the viewe...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Erasmo, Mario
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Griego Antiguo
Latín
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
Death in literature.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Rome.
Mourning customs > Rome.
Latin literature > History and criticism.
Mort dans la littérature.
Deuil > Coutumes > Rome.
Littérature latine > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Death in literature
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Latin literature
Mourning customs
Tod
Brauch
Literatur
Tod > Motiv
Bestattungsritus
Mort > Dans la littérature.
Rome (Empire)
Römisches Reich
Latein.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Playing dead
  • Staging death
  • Disposing the dead
  • Disposing the dead?
  • Animating the dead.

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