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Living through the dead : burial and commemoration in the classical world / edited by Maureen Carroll and Jane Rempel ; with a preface by John Drinkwater.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in funerary archaeology ; v. 5.
- Studies in funerary archaeology ; v. 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Burial--Greece.
- Burial.
- Burial--Rome.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--Greece.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--Rome.
- Memorialization--Greece.
- Memorialization.
- Memorialization--Rome.
- Sepulchral monuments--Greece.
- Sepulchral monuments.
- Sepulchral monuments--Rome.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Rome.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; Oakville, Conn. : Oxbow Books, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume investigates the archaeology of death and commemoration through thematically linked case studies drawn from the Classical world. These investigations stress the processes of burial and commemoration as inherently social and designed for an audience, and they explore the meaning and importance attached to preserving memory. While previous investigations of Greek and Roman death and burial have tended to concentrate on period- or regionally-specific sets of data, this volume instead focuses on a series of topical connections that highlight important facets of death and commemoration
- Contents:
- The power of the dead in classical Sparta : the case of Thermopylae / Polly Low
- Burial in the Bosporan kingdom : local traditions in regional context(s) / Jane Rempel
- Foreigners in the burial ground : the case of the Milesians in Athens / Celina L. Gray
- Memoria and Damnatio Memoriae : Preserving and erasing identities in Roman funerary commemoration / Maureen Carroll
- From fragments to ancestors : re-defining the role of os resectum in rituals of purification and commemoration in Republican Rome / Emma-Jayne Graham
- Publius Vesonius Phileros vivos monumentum fecit : investigations in a sector of the Porta Nocera cemetery in Roman Pompeii / Sebastien Lepetz and William Van Andringa
- Marking the dead : tombs and topography in the Roman provinces / John Pearce
- The mechanics of social connections between the living and the dead in ancient Egypt / Martin Bommas
- Innocent X, Pontifex Optimus Maximus, and the church of Sant Agnese : a mausoleum for the Pamphilj "forum" / Susan Russell.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-84217-557-2
- OCLC:
- 831118140
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