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Death and Burial in the Roman World

Author : J. M. C. Toynbee
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801855078
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (55 download)

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Book Synopsis Death and Burial in the Roman World by : J. M. C. Toynbee

Download or read book Death and Burial in the Roman World written by J. M. C. Toynbee and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996-10-31 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Memory and Mourning

Author : Valerie M. Hope
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781842179901
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (799 download)

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Book Synopsis Memory and Mourning by : Valerie M. Hope

Download or read book Memory and Mourning written by Valerie M. Hope and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Life, Death, and Entertainment in the Roman Empire

Author : David Stone Potter
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472085682
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (856 download)

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Book Synopsis Life, Death, and Entertainment in the Roman Empire by : David Stone Potter

Download or read book Life, Death, and Entertainment in the Roman Empire written by David Stone Potter and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Life, Death, and Entertainment in the Roman Empire gives those who have a general interest in Roman antiquity a starting point informed by the latest developments in scholarship for understanding the extraordinary range of Roman society. Family structure, gender identity, food supply, religion, and entertainment are all crucial to an understanding of the Roman world. As views of Roman history have broadened in recent decades to encompass a wider range of topics, the need has grown for a single volume that can offer a starting point for all these diverse subjects, for readers of all backgrounds."--Page 4 of cover.

Death in Ancient Rome

Author : Catharine Edwards
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300112085
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Death in Ancient Rome written by Catharine Edwards and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Romans, the manner of a person's death was the most telling indication of their true character. Death revealed the true patriot, the genuine philosopher, even, perhaps, the great artist--and certainly the faithful Christian. Catharine Edwards draws on the many and richly varied accounts of death in the writings of Roman historians, poets, and philosophers, including Cicero, Lucretius, Virgil, Seneca, Petronius, Tacitus, Tertullian, and Augustine, to investigate the complex significance of dying in the Roman world. Death in the Roman world was largely understood and often literally viewed as a spectacle. Those deaths that figured in recorded history were almost invariably violent--murders, executions, suicides--and yet the most admired figures met their ends with exemplary calm, their last words set down for posterity. From noble deaths in civil war, mortal combat between gladiators, political execution and suicide, to the deathly dinner of Domitian, the harrowing deaths of women such as the mythical Lucretia and Nero's mother Agrippina, as well as instances of Christian martyrdom, Edwards engagingly explores the culture of death in Roman literature and history.

The Ancient Roman Afterlife

Author : Charles King
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477320202
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Roman Afterlife written by Charles King and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancient Rome, it was believed some humans were transformed into special, empowered beings after death. These deified dead, known as the manes, watched over and protected their surviving family members, possibly even extending those relatives’ lives. But unlike the Greek hero-cult, the worship of dead emperors, or the Christian saints, the manes were incredibly inclusive—enrolling even those without social clout, such as women and the poor, among Rome's deities. The Roman afterlife promised posthumous power in the world of the living. While the manes have often been glossed over in studies of Roman religion, this book brings their compelling story to the forefront, exploring their myriad forms and how their worship played out in the context of Roman religion’s daily practice. Exploring the place of the manes in Roman society, Charles King delves into Roman beliefs about their powers to sustain life and bring death to individuals or armies, examines the rituals the Romans performed to honor them, and reclaims the vital role the manes played in the ancient Roman afterlife.

Life and Death in the Roman Suburb

Author : Allison L. C. Emmerson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198852754
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Book Synopsis Life and Death in the Roman Suburb by : Allison L. C. Emmerson

Download or read book Life and Death in the Roman Suburb written by Allison L. C. Emmerson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-05-25 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defined by borders both physical and conceptual, the Roman city stood apart as a concentration of life and activity that was legally, economically, and ritually divided from its rural surroundings. Death was a key area of control, and tombs were relegated outside city walls from the Republican period through Late Antiquity. Given this separation, an unexpected phenomenon marked the Augustan and early Imperial periods: Roman cities developed suburbs, built-up areas beyond their boundaries, where the living and the dead came together in densely urban environments. Life and Death in the Roman Suburb examines these districts, drawing on the archaeological remains of cities across Italy to understand the character of Roman suburbs and to illuminate the factors that led to their rise and decline, focusing especially on the tombs of the dead. Whereas work on Roman cities has tended to pass over funerary material, and research on death has concentrated on issues seen as separate from urbanism, Emmerson introduces a new paradigm, considering tombs within their suburban surroundings of shops, houses, workshops, garbage dumps, extramural sanctuaries, and major entertainment buildings, in order to trace the many roles they played within living cities. Her investigations show how tombs were not passive memorials, but active spaces that facilitated and furthered the social and economic life of the city, where relationships between the living and the dead were an enduring aspect of urban life.

Roman Death

Author : Valerie M. Hope
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441113657
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Book Synopsis Roman Death by : Valerie M. Hope

Download or read book Roman Death written by Valerie M. Hope and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original study of the role and rituals of death in Roman civilization. Death never ceases to fascinate the living and in roman society, where the mortality was high, people were forced to confront the brevity of life and the impact of death. What did death mean and symbolize to the Romans? What does 'roman death' tell the modern reader about ancient society? This accessible and engaging book ranges from suicides, funeral feasts, necromancy and Hades to mourning, epitaphs and posthumous damnation. Impressive in its broad scope and fascinating in the level of detail, Valerie Hope presents the first survey to study death in ancient Rome in such an approachable and authoritative style.

The Death of Myth on Roman Sarcophagi

Author : Mont Allen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100904124X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Death of Myth on Roman Sarcophagi written by Mont Allen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strange thing happened to Roman sarcophagi in the third century: their Greek mythic imagery vanished. Since the beginning of their production a century earlier, these beautifully carved coffins had featured bold mythological scenes. How do we make sense of this imagery's own death on later sarcophagi, when mythological narratives were truncated, gods and heroes were excised, and genres featuring no mythic content whatsoever came to the fore? What is the significance of such a profound tectonic shift in the Roman funerary imagination for our understanding of Roman history and culture, for the development of its arts, for the passage from the High to the Late Empire and the coming of Christianity, but above all, for the individual Roman women and men who chose this imagery, and who took it with them to the grave? In this book, Mont Allen offers the clues that aid in resolving this mystery.

Patriarchy, Property and Death in the Roman Family

Author : Richard P. Saller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521599788
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (997 download)

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Book Synopsis Patriarchy, Property and Death in the Roman Family by : Richard P. Saller

Download or read book Patriarchy, Property and Death in the Roman Family written by Richard P. Saller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative study of the patriarchy belies the accepted notion of the father figure as tyrannical and exploitative.

Death in Ancient Rome

Author : Valerie Hope
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134323085
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Book Synopsis Death in Ancient Rome by : Valerie Hope

Download or read book Death in Ancient Rome written by Valerie Hope and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Death and the Emperor

Author : Penelope J. E. Davies
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292789564
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Death and the Emperor written by Penelope J. E. Davies and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of monuments in the Roman imperial cult. “Davies sets out to ask, How did the Romans bury Caesar? And with what monuments did they sing his praises? . . . The architectural elaboration of these structures, their siting in the capital, the lines of vision and approaches that exposed them to view, the paths their complex outworks formed for visitors to walk, are all picked out with skill and presented with care in Death and the Emperor.” Times Literary Supplement “This concise and lucidly written book is a very valuable new contribution to the studies of Roman imperial cult, political propaganda, and topography, and has the added benefit of discussing complex scholarly disputes in a manner that the non-specialist will probably follow with ease. . . . There is material in this volume that will be immensely useful to researchers in many areas: archaeology, history of architecture, iconography, history of religion, and Roman political propaganda, to name just a few. I strongly recommend it to scholars interested in any or all of the above topics.” Bryn Mawr Classical Review “Even though its focus is on only seven specimens of architecture, the book touches upon a broad array of aspects of Roman imperial culture. Elegantly written and generously illustrated . . . this book should be of great interest to the general public as well as to the scholarly community.” American Journal of Archaeology

A Roman Death

Author : Joan O'Hagan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780648002000
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book A Roman Death written by Joan O'Hagan and published by . This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical thriller set in Ancient Rome. Lucius, the attractive fiance of a high-society girl is poisoned at the pre-wedding banquet. In the trial that follows, Roman society is shocked when the girl's mother, Helvia, is accused of incest as well as murder. Cicero comes to Helvia's defence, but the killer's identity remains a mystery ...

Death as a Process

Author : John Pearce
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781785703232
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Death as a Process written by John Pearce and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Archaeology of Death in Roman Syria

Author : Lidewijde de Jong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107131413
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis The Archaeology of Death in Roman Syria by : Lidewijde de Jong

Download or read book The Archaeology of Death in Roman Syria written by Lidewijde de Jong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds new light on funerary customs in Roman Syria, offering a novel way of understanding its provincial culture.

Rome at War

Author : Nathan Rosenstein
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807864102
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Rome at War written by Nathan Rosenstein and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have long asserted that during and after the Hannibalic War, the Roman Republic's need to conscript men for long-term military service helped bring about the demise of Italy's small farms and that the misery of impoverished citizens then became fuel for the social and political conflagrations of the late republic. Nathan Rosenstein challenges this claim, showing how Rome reconciled the needs of war and agriculture throughout the middle republic. The key, Rosenstein argues, lies in recognizing the critical role of family formation. By analyzing models of families' needs for agricultural labor over their life cycles, he shows that families often had a surplus of manpower to meet the demands of military conscription. Did, then, Roman imperialism play any role in the social crisis of the later second century B.C.? Rosenstein argues that Roman warfare had critical demographic consequences that have gone unrecognized by previous historians: heavy military mortality paradoxically helped sustain a dramatic increase in the birthrate, ultimately leading to overpopulation and landlessness.

Twice Dead: The True Death and Life Story of Roman Gutierrez

Author : David J. Drum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780985604103
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Twice Dead: The True Death and Life Story of Roman Gutierrez written by David J. Drum and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Roman Gutierrez was eleven years old, his father died from a heroin overdose. Roman resolved, in his anger and his pain, that someday God would take him the same way. He became an addict, a year later he went to juvenile detention for stealing, and attempted suicide the year after that. At fifteen he got into a fight and was pronounced dead for six minutes. At nineteen he was stabbed by his best friend, and pronounced dead for five minutes. When Roman was twenty-five, he shot up all the heroin he had so his torment would end ... and realized he didn't want to die. That's when a miracle occurred ...

History of the Later Roman Empire from the Death of Theodosius I. to the Death of Justinian

Author : John Bagnell Bury
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486203980
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book History of the Later Roman Empire from the Death of Theodosius I. to the Death of Justinian written by John Bagnell Bury and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1958-01-01 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unabridged and unaltered republication of the first edition.