Mortuary variability and social diversity in Ancient Greece : studies on Ancient Greek death and burial / edited by Nikolas Dimakis, Tamara M. Dijkstra.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dimakis, Nikolas, editor.

Dijkstra, Tamara M., 1985- editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Archaeopress archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burial.

History.

Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient.

Greece--Social conditions--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

Social conditions.

Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient--Greece.

Burial--Greece--History--To 1500.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ii, 195 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress Archaeology, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Even though, at death, identity and social status may undergo major changes, by studying funerary customs we can greatly gain in the understanding of a community's social structure, distribution of wealth and property, and the degree of flexibility or divisiveness in the apportionment of power. With its great regional diversity and variety of community forms and networks, ancient Greece offers a unique context for exploring, through the burial evidence, how communities developed. Mortuary Variability and Social Diversity in Ancient Greece brings together early career scholars working on funerary customs in Greece from the Early Iron Age to the Roman period. Papers present various thematic and interdisciplinary analysis in which funerary contexts provide insights on individuals, social groups and communities. Themes discussed include issues of territoriality, the reconstruction of social roles of particular groups of people, and the impact that major historical events may have had on the way individuals or specific groups of individuals treated their dead.

Contents:

Death Practices and Social Change

Protogeometric Thessaly: An Integrated Study of Burial Practices and Isotope Analysis of Human Remains p. 7 / Eleni Panagiotopoulou

Liminal Spaces, Burial Contexts and Funerary Practices in the pre-Classical Marathon (Attica) p. 14 / Vicky Vlachou

Funerary Variability in Late Geometric Attica and its Implications: A Closer Look at the Neglected Late 8th-century Cremations p. 32 / Alexandra Alexandridou

Mortuary Practices in the Ancient Rural Demoi of Southeastern Attica under the Light of Recent Evidence from Five Cemeteries in Mesogaia p. 50 / Panagiota Galiatsatou

Urbanism and its Impact on Human Health and Diet: A Preliminary Study of the Human Remains from Hellenistic to Late Antique Knossos, Crete p. 63 / Anna Moles

Social identity and Treatment in Death

Defining Social Identities at Cemeteries of Late Classical Argos: Age- and Gender-Groups on the Basis of Distinctive Funerary Gifts p. 75 / Georgia Ivou

Pot Burials in Ancient Thera: The Presence of Infants in the Cemeteries of the Ancient City from 8th to 6th Century BC p. 88 / Olga Kaklamani

Premature Death and Burial in Classical and Hellenistic Attica p. 102 / Nikolas Dimakis

Monumental Commemoration and Identity

The Creation of a Deathscape: The Monumental Tomb at Agios Milianos in Lindos p. 119 / Vasiliki Brouma

Building for the mos Romanus in the Peloponnese: The Columbaria Monuments p. 126 / Georgios Doulfis

Mortuary Practices at Roman Sparta p. 142 / Maria Tsouli

Burial Monumentally and Funerary Associations in Roman Kos p. 162 / Nikolas Dimakis and Vassiliki Christopoulou

Grave Markers (Semata) of the Koan Necropoleis (3rd century BC-3rd century AD) p. 176 / Chrysanthi Tsouli.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781789694437

1789694434

Publisher Number:

99983773183

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.