1 option
Memory and mourning : studies on Roman death / edited by Valerie M. Hope and Janet Huskinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death--Social aspects--Rome--History.
- Death.
- Memory--Social aspects--Rome--History.
- Memory.
- Mourning customs--Rome--History.
- Mourning customs.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--Rome--History.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Death in literature.
- Latin literature--History and criticism.
- Latin literature.
- Death in art.
- Architecture and society--Rome--History.
- Architecture and society.
- Rome--Social life and customs.
- Rome.
- Rome--Antiquities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; Oakville, Conn. : Oxbow Books, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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, history and oratory and placing these alongside archaeological and textual evidence for Roman funerary and commemorative rituals. A series of case studies centred on individual authors and/or specific aspects of ritual behaviour, traces the story of Roman death: how the inhabitants of the Roman world c
- Contents:
- "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 Sterbenc 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-84217-551-3
- OCLC:
- 831118137
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.