The remarkable life, death, and afterlife of an ordinary Roman : a social history / Jeremy Hartnett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hartnett, Jeremy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rome--Social life and customs.

Rome.

Physical Description:

x, 194 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"When we think of Romans, Julius Caesar or Constantine might spring to mind. But what was life like for everyday folk, those who gazed up at the palace rather than looking out from within its walls? In this book, Jeremy Hartnett offers a detailed view of an average Roman, an individual named Flavius Agricola. Though Flavius was only a generation or two removed from slavery, his successful life emerges from his careful commemoration in death: a poetic epitaph and life-sized marble portrait showing him reclining at table. This ensemble not only enables Hartnett to reconstruct Flavius' biography, as well as his wife's, but also permits a nuanced exploration of many aspects of Roman life, such as dining, sex, worship of foreign deities, gender, bodily display, cultural literacy, religious experience, blended families, and visiting the dead at their tombs. Teasing provocative questions from this ensemble, Hartnett also recounts the monument's scandalous discovery and extraordinary afterlife over the centuries."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Part I: The life and death of Flavius Agricola. The monument, the epitaph, and their setting

The person, a life, and its presentation

Flavia Primitiva: wife, mother, casta cultrix

Flavia Primitiva, experience, and community in the Iseum Campense

Part II: The many afterlives of Flavius Agricola. Flavius Agricola in early modern Rome

Flavius in the modern world.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Hartnett, Jeremy. Remarkable life, death, and afterlife of an ordinary Roman.

ISBN:

1009536095

9781009536097

1009536060

9781009536066

OCLC:

1434167690